Privacy Protection and Challenges -- Challenges Posed by Biometric Technology on Data Privacy Protection and the Way Forward -- The Dangers of Electronic Traces: Data Protection Challenges Presented by New Information Communication Technologies -- Privacy and Biometrics for Authentication Purposes: A Discussion of Untraceable Biometrics and Biometric Encryption -- From the Economics to the Behavioral Economics of Privacy: A Note -- Legal Challenges -- Legislative and Ethical Questions regarding DNA and Other Forensic "Biometric" Databases -- Are We Protected? The Adequacy of Existing Legal Frameworks for Protecting Privacy in the Biometric Age -- Have a Safe Trip Global Mobility and Machine Readable Travel Documents: Experiences from Latin America and the Caribbean -- Engineering and Social Challenges -- On Analysis of Rural and Urban Indian Fingerprint Images -- Privacy Protection in High Security Biometrics Applications -- Face Recognition and Plastic Surgery: Social, Ethical and Engineering Challenges -- Human Face Analysis: From Identity to Emotion and Intention Recognition -- Creating Safe and Trusted Social Networks with Biometric User Authentication -- Ethical and Medical Concerns -- Ethical Values for E-Society: Information, Security and Privacy -- Ethical Issues in Governing Biometric Technologies -- Interdisciplinary Approaches to Determine the Social Impacts of Biotechnology -- Medical Safety Issues Concerning the Use of Incoherent Infrared Light in Biometrics -- Policy Issues and Deployments in Asia -- The Status Quo and Ethical Governance in Biometric in Mainland China -- Building an Ecosystem for Cyber Security and Data Protection in India -- Challenges in Large Scale Biometrics Identification -- The Unique Identification Number Project: Challenges and Recommendations -- The Unique ID Project in India: A Skeptical Note.

This volume constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Ethics and Policy of Biometrics and International Data Sharing, ICEB 2010, held in Hong Kong, during January 4-5, 2010. The 25 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on Privacy Protection and Challenges, Legal Challenges, Engineering and Social Challenges, Ethical and Medical Concerns, Policy Issues and Deployments in Asia, Challenges in Large Scale Biometrics Identification.