{"id":21553,"date":"2023-09-14T14:28:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/?post_type=vo_events&#038;p=21553"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:29:35","slug":"ivir-lecture-23june2023","status":"publish","type":"vo_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/nl\/agenda\/ivir-lecture-23june2023\/","title":{"rendered":"IViR Lecture: Biometrics and the Registration and Authentication of Voters:\u00a0Is there a Global Trend?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile has-ivir-red-background-color has-background\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 28%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/publicaties\/download\/Colin-Bennett-049-Edit-copy-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17300 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background-color has-dark-grey-background-color has-text-color has-background\"><strong>IViR is pleased to announce that<br>Prof. Colin Bennett<br>will give a lecture entitled<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/publicaties\/download\/flyer23juni2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biometrics and the Registration and Authentication of Voters: <br>Is there a Global Trend?<\/a><br>on Friday 23 June 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>All democratic countries require reliable methods to authenticate the identity of eligible voters. They need ways to ensure that only those eligible to vote are included in official electoral registers and that those who vote on election day are eligible to vote, and indeed, are \u2018who they say they are.\u2019 Over time, different democratic countries have relied on a range of methods to support both goals. For more established democratic countries, these systems of voter registration and authentication are rooted in distinct institutional and administrative practices that have strong roots in their political cultures. These practices have important legacies that are resistant to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, however, as a result of various forces, we have witnessed pressures in a number of countries to support or reinforce existing methods of voter authentication with new forms of identification, often based on biometric data. These trends are particularly notable in countries in the global south, where biometric methods are aggressively promoted by the burgeoning biometrics industry. Biometrics are often promoted to advance a narrative that are essential to support the broader rights to vote and participate in democratic affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this talk, Colin Bennett reviews these trends and outlines the various risks of biometric identification in the electoral context. Those risks relate to privacy, as well as to wider issues of voter discrimination and suppression. Are we going to see increasing use of biometrics in Europe, and other democratic countries for purposes of voter registration and authentication?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#bc0031\">Colin Bennett is Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.&nbsp; For over thirty years, his research has focused on impact of surveillance technologies, and on the comparative analysis of privacy protection governance at domestic and international levels. In addition to numerous scholarly and newspaper articles, he has published seven books on these subjects, including <em>The Governance of Privacy<\/em> (MIT Press, 2006). He has also worked on policy reports for national and international organizations, including the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the UK Information Commissioner, the European Commission and the Council of Europe. He is currently researching the effects of data-driven elections, and the capture and use of personal data on voters by political parties in Western democracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong>&nbsp;23 June 2023<br><strong>Time:<\/strong>&nbsp;16.00 \u2013 17.30 CET (Amsterdam)<br><strong>Place:<\/strong><br>\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/about-us\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IViR Room<\/a>, 5.24, REC A, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam.<br>\u2013 Online via Zoom (you will receive the Zoomlink via e-mail on the morning of the lecture).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","event_types":[2827],"class_list":["post-21553","vo_events","type-vo_events","status-publish","hentry","event_types-ivir-lecture-nl","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IViR Lecture: Biometrics and the Registration and Authentication of Voters:\u00a0Is there a Global Trend? - IVIR<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ivir.nl\/nl\/agenda\/ivir-lecture-23june2023\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IViR Lecture: Biometrics and the Registration and Authentication of Voters:\u00a0Is there a Global Trend? - IVIR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"IViR is pleased to announce thatProf. Colin Bennettwill give a lecture entitledBiometrics and the Registration and Authentication of Voters: Is there a Global Trend?on Friday 23 June 2023 All democratic countries require reliable methods to authenticate the identity of eligible voters. 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