The Centre for Internet and Society, the organization I work for, currently serves on a committee established by the Government of India's Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology n January 2013. The committee has been charged with preparing a report on the draft Human DNA Pro-filing Bill. Why should an organiza-tion that focuses on the Internet be nvited to such a committee? There are some obvious reasons related to data protection and big data. CIS had previously served on the Justice AP Shah committee that was tasked by the Planning Commission to make ecommendations on the draft Pri-acy Bill in 2012. There are also ome less obvious connections, such as academic research into cyborgs wherein the distinction between human and machine/technology is blurred; where an insulin pump makes one realize that the Internet of Things could include the Internet of Body Parts. But for this note I will focus on biometrics - quantifiable data related to individual human characteristics - and their gate-keeping function on the Internet.
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