L'ACCÉS (ACCESS) is an exhibit planned for exploring the culture of access to which developed democracies are turning, privileging passwords, identification technologies and biometrics above the individual's capacity to demonstrate character on a human scale and generate trust through personal relationships...

BIOMETRIC DEVICES MAY UNDERMINE INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY
AS GOVERNMENTS SCRAMBLE TO IMPLEMENT TECHNOLOGICALLY UNSTABLE, UNPROVEN SYSTEMS, INDIVIDUALS LIKELY TO SUFFER FRAUD, LIMITS ON MOVEMENT
26 October 2006

In the wake of major terrorist attacks against densely populated civilian centers in several countries across Europe, Asia and America, governments and private industry are looking at ways of using biometric scanning technology to determine who should or should not have access to certain locations and services. The technology is complicated and highly advanced, but unproven, and potentially highly flawed. [Full Story]

SCIENCE ABOVE TECHNOCRACY, FOR A FULLER FUTURE
SCIENTIFIC METHOD CAN CONTEXTUALIZE TECHNOLOGY, PROTECT AGAINST EROSION OF RIGHTS, ENVIRONMENT
8 May 2006

Science is in many ways an artform, but it is specifically and most importantly, the art of knowledge. It is not philosophy, not a study of how knowledge comes about, what it is, whether it can be trusted or whether we need to adjust our thinking; it is, instead, a direct study of the natural world, its tendencies, its evidence, and its capacity to work with us, for us and around us. [Full Story]

DATA SHADOWS & IMPROBABLE CONSENT
'COMPULSORY VOLUNTARISM' RAISES SPECTRE OF 'CONSENTING' TO INFRINGED LIBERTIES AGAINST ONE'S WILL
2 January 2006

Neither contracts nor "terms and conditions" including indemnities disclaimers, can be classified as legislation. They do not make or construct legal limits by themselves. Obvious as this may seem, it is a necessary introduction to the problem of the trade in personal information and "soft surveillance", whereby one is routinely subjected to interrogation, inspection and even physical search, not for having broken any laws or even aroused any reasonable suspicion, but simply because "that's policy". [Full Story]