ROPAA & BIOMETRIC DATABASE: RIGHT TO VOTE AND RIGHT TO BE LEFT ALONE; IS THERE ANY UNINTENDED DOWNSIDE TO THE DATA SUBJECT IN THE DIASPORA?
Introduction As the world keeps on evolving especially with the age of technological advancement, there is the need for the citizenry to become well-informed about this dynamism in all aspects of their affairs particularly when it comes to matters of biometric database. Biometric databases generally refers to storing digitized templates of biological information unique to an individual such as retina or iris, fingerprints, voice prints, and of face geometry which is matched with what is produced when a person physically presents herself as a reader. There are basically two ways of storing such digitized templates, on a card which is under the control of owner (data subject) and centralized which is under the control of the one collecting the information (data controller). Although the benefit of biometric database is unquestionable, there is the downside of abuse of the database. Once it is set up, there can be uses for it without boundaries. The functionality of th