John D. Woodward, Jr.

Selected Bibliography

Publications by John D. Woodward, Jr.

• "Another View: Who Goes There? Biometrics Can Make Positive ID," Government Computer News, July 5, 2004.
  
  
• “Biometrics: Trust, But Identify,” West Virginia High Technology Consortium Journal of Innovation, Spring/Summer 2004 at 20.
  
  
• “DoD’s Approach to Biometric Standards,” Biometric Technology Today, June 2004.
  
  
• “DoD’s Collaborative Approach to Developing Biometric Standards,” Defense Standardization Program Journal, April–June 2004 at 63.
  
  
• Biometrics: Identity Assurance in the Information Age, a new book by John D. Woodward, Jr., Nicholas M. Orlans, and Peter T. Higgins, (Osborne McGraw Hill, 2003), is now available. Several universities use this book, including the U.S. Naval Academy for its course on "Biometric Signal Processing".
  
  Here is what the U.S. Naval Academy professors said about the book: "[T]he background of biometrics was taught using the text from Woodward, Orlans and Higgins. This book provided an overview of the evolution of biometrics as used in personnel authentication, as well as the issues surrounding the use and collection of this information . . . Weekly assigned readings were drawn from this book and the students were tested on their content with quizzes."
  
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• “Searching the FBI’s Civil Files: Public Safety v. Civil Liberty,” U.S. Law Week, Sept. 17, 2002 at 2183; also published in Privacy & Security Law, Sept. 2, 2002 at 1042.
  
  
• “Surveillance Cameras in the United States,” Municipal Lawyer, 43.4 (2002) at 16.
  
  
• “Biometrics for Lawyers,” Privacy & Security Law, May 6, 2002 at 557 (with Christopher Horn).
  
  
• "High-Tech Human Identification Can Fight Terrorism," by John D. Woodward, Jr., Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 24, 2001
  

• Army Biometric Applications: Identifying and Addressing Sociocultural Concerns, RAND MR-1237, (with Katharine W. Webb et al., 2001).



• Biometrics: Facing Up to Terrorism, by John D. Woodward, Jr., RAND Issue Paper IP-218, Dec. 2001. On November 14, 2001, John Woodward submitted written testimony for a Senate hearing in which he addressed ways that biometrics could be used to help fight terrorism.
  
  
• Super Bowl Surveillance: Facing Up to Biometrics, by John D. Woodward, Jr., RAND Issue Paper IP-209, May 2001.
  
  
• “And Now, the Good Side Of Facial Profiling,” Washington Post, Feb. 4, 2001 at B4.
  
  
• “DoD Marches Out Smartly on Biometrics,” Biometrics in Human Services User Group Newsletter, Nov. 2000.



• “Biometrics: Identifying Law and Policy Concerns,” in Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society, Chapter 19 at 385 (Anil K. Jain et al. eds., 1998).



• “Biometrics and the Future of Money,” Electronic Banking Law and Commerce Report, 3.2 (1998).



• “Believing in Biometrics,” Information Security Magazine, Feb. 1998.



• “Biometric Scanning, Law and Policy: Identifying the Concerns—Drafting the Biometric Blueprint,” University of Pittsburgh Law Review 59.97 (1997).



• “Biometrics: Privacy’s Foe or Privacy’s Friend?” Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 85.1480 (Sept. 1997).



• “Building a Biometric Blueprint: The Lessons of Whalen v. Roe,” Biometric Technology Today, Dec. 1996/Jan. 1997 at 4.



• “Biometrics Offers Security—But Legal Worries, Too,” American Banker, Aug. 23, 1996 at 11.



• “They Can See It in Your Eyes: The Law and Policy Dilemmas of Biometric Technology,” Legal Times, June 3, 1996 at 24.

Articles Featuring John D. Woodward, Jr.

• “Feds Closing in on Biometric Policy,” by Susan Menke, Government Computer News, (July 7, 2004).



• “Distance Identification on Way, Official Says - Biometrics Will Improve Some Security Measures,” by George Hohmann, Charleston Daily Times, (Jan. 9, 2004).



• “Biometrics Offices Get New Leaders,” by Dawn S. Onley, Government Computer News, (Oct. 9, 2003).



• “Great Expectations: Biometrics, Dogged by 'Hollywood Mystique,' Biometrics Struggles to Fulfill Promise,” by Patience Wait, Washington Technology, (Sept. 29, 2003).



• New York Times, “In Airport Security, Think Low Tech,” (Sept. 16, 2002).



• New York Times, “Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid,” (July 28, 2002).



• National Public Radio, Public Interest, “Tech Talk,” (Mar. 19, 2002).



• New York Times, “Airlines Seek an E-Z Pass for Fast Security Checks,” (Jan. 13, 2002).



• Technology Review, “Big Brother Logs On,” (Sept. 2001).



• U.S. News & World Report, “You Can’t Hide Those Lying Eyes,” (Aug. 6, 2001).



• The Economist, “Biometrics: The Measure of Man,” (Sept. 9, 2000).



• Seattle Times, “No Laws Yet Govern Biometrics, Legal Experts Say,” (June 22, 1999).



• “The Eyes Have It: Body Scans at the ATM,” by Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post, (June 21, 1999).
  
  
• Electronic Engineering Times, “Web Postings to Fuel Science of Biometrics,” (Feb. 5, 1998).



• “Use of Recognition Technology Grows in Everyday Transactions,” by Saul Hansell, New York Times, (Aug. 20, 1997).



• “The Body as Password,” by Ann Davis, Wired, (July 1997).



• “Brave New Whorl ID Systems Using The Human Body Are Here, but Privacy Issues Persist,” by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Washington Post, (March 30 1997).
  
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