IEC Standard 80000DB

User Editable Database of Quantities and Units of Known Thresholds:Telebiometrics

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Introduction to the Telebiometrics Database

Our world is enmeshed with a variety of information technology devices whose networks are slowly covering the planet. Financial transactions, medical records and therapies, even our ordinary daily lives are increasingly carried out in proximity to screens and sensors of diverse kinds. Standards organizations such as ISO, IEC and ITU strive to maximize the health, safety and security of our biodiverse planet as together we create what Vladmir Vernadsky called the "noosphere", the earth's information ecology. As with electrification in the early 20th century, these organizations wish to ensure that any information ecology we grow together will maximize the health, safety and security of all who call this planet their home.

This is a huge undertaking, of course. As I type these words, facial scans, iris scans and other biometric technologies are being deployed and interlinked. Are they safe? Do they respect the existing cultural and biological values of all the different cultures and ecosystems on Earth? Strictly speaking, we just don't know, and we need your help to find out. Our first goal is to establish known safety thresholds for human beings however they might interact, knowingly or unknowingly, with telebiometric devices. Won't you help us by browsing this wiki and adding information in the tables and the document that will give us guidelines for the brilliant designers and engineers as they design the future of our information ecology? Please feel free to add to the wiki, and we welcome all questions about the wiki to the questions page. Thank you for your help.

Sincerely,

The members of TC 25/WG 5