PRESCIENT - Privacy and emerging fields of science and technology: Towards a common framework for privacy and ethical assessment. Deliverable 2: Privacy, data protection and ethical issues in new and emerging technologies: Five case studies.

The purpose of this report is to describe five case studies involving different emerging tech- nologies expected to have significant impact on privacy in order to consider how well current legal and other regulatory mechanisms are suited to address the privacy and ethical issues raised by these technologies. This report identifies and analyses privacy, data protection and ethical issues raised by the following emerging and technologies: RFID enabled travel cards and passports, "new surveillance technologies", such as whole body imaging scanners and unmanned aircraft systems, second generation biometrics, whole genome sequencing and hu- man enhancement. For each technology the authors also identify uncertainties in the legal environment as a result of new and emerging technologies.