Gutwirth Serge
Law Science Technology & Society (LSTS) Department of Metajuridica, Faculty of Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Pleinlaan 2 Building B, B-1050 Brussels Belgium.
Ann Ist Super Sanita. 2007;43(1):61-5.
The overall aim of the democratic constitutional state is to protect a social order in which the individual liberty of the citizen is a major concern. As a consequence the democratic constitutional state should guarantee simultaneously and paradoxically a high level of individual freedom and an order in which such freedom is made possible and guaranteed. Biometrics provide a strong and expressive example both of the necessity to address the issue of opacity and transparency and the complexity of the process. Indeed, the large scale use of biometrics does not only question the position of the individual in society, but it also alters the architecture or nature of this society as such.
民主宪政国家的总体目标是保护一种社会秩序，在这种秩序中，公民的个人自由是主要关注点。因此，民主宪政国家应同时且看似矛盾地保障高水平的个人自由以及使这种自由成为可能并得到保障的秩序。生物识别技术既有力且生动地例证了处理不透明性和透明度问题的必要性，也例证了这一过程的复杂性。事实上，生物识别技术的大规模使用不仅对个人在社会中的地位提出了质疑，而且还改变了这个社会本身的架构或性质。
