A  high level  workshop on “Ethical and Policy Implications of Global Mobility and Security” took place in Brussels, Berlaymont Building - Schuman Room,  on 25 & 26 March 2010. Speakers included Mr Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission, and Transport Commissioner; Mr Jaak Aaviksoo, Estonian Minister of Defense and Mr Peter Hustinx, European Data Protection Supervisor.

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The  workshop, chaired by Prof Margit Sutrop, was held in the framework of the RISE project (Rising Pan-European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics, www.riseproject.eu). RISE  is a “track 2” initiative, funded by the European Commission in the scope of FP7 Science in Society, which aims to provide an open, international,  forum to discuss ethical, privacy  and social issue raised by biometrics and security technologies. RISE is a aims to complement  bilateral and multilateral forums sponsored at governmental level. In particular the project aims to, to deepen, enlarge, and ensure continuity to international dialogue already initiated  by the international conferences on ethics and biometrics organised by the EC DG Research and the US DHS Privacy Office respectively in Brussels and Washington DC in 2005 and 2006.

The main focus of the workshop was the multifaceted prism of fundamental rights, privacy and security in relation to the implementation of biometrics, body scanners and other security technologies. During the workshop  a Policy Report on “Whole Body Imaging Technology in European Airports: the Ethical and Policy Context” was presented.

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