RISE (biometrics and security ethics)

Rising Pan European and International Awareness of Biometrics and Security Ethics (RISE) is an international initiative for promoting Awareness on Ethical Aspects of Biometrics and Security Technologies.

RISE will deepen, enlarge, and ensure continuity to European and international dialogue already instigated by the international conferences on ethics and biometrics organised by the EC DG Research and the US DHS Privacy Office respectively in Brussels and Washington DC in 2005 and 2006. RISE is a 36 month Coordination and Support Action (CSA) funded under FP7, SP 4 Capacities, Grant agreement number: 230389.

The project is based on three main ideas:

• Dialogue must be global
• Policy must be ethically informed
• Conversation must be ongoing

These ideas have led to the generation of three strategic objectives:

• Preparing and convening a third international conference in China
• Preparing and convening a European multi-stakeholder conference
• Preparing and convening a fourth international conference in Europe.