Dr. Ann Cavoukian at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On June 7th, 2012. See this statement in context.

June 7th, 2012 / 12:45 p.m.

Commissioner, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario

Under biometric encryption, the encryption key would in fact be the facial image or the finger. The unique features of your biometric would become, in effect, the equivalent to an encryption key that would then encrypt some other data.

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