Introduction -- Rethinking data protection regimes to enable global tracking and prosecution of terrorists -- United States visitor and immigrant status indicator technology program -- Biometrics and national identification cards -- Do biometric identifiers make us safer? -- Theft of biometric data: implausible deniability -- Biometric authentication from a legal point of view: a European and German perspective -- Biometrics in the private sector: trends and case studies -- The application of biometrics to payment verification -- Biometrics and digital rights management -- Unintended consequences of biometrics