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Countries including Australia, the US, Canada, Israel and Kuwait have
announced plans to develop national biometric systems in 2013. Biometric facial scans taken for passports, driv-ers licences or nightclub entry can now be stored in police and spy agency databases, under changes to Australia’s privacy laws.
According to the Australian Herald Sun, new privacy legislation has removed the ban on biometric data being handed to crime-fighting agencies and police will be able to ask private companies, including shops, pubs and clubs, to hand over their patrons’ facial scans.
The US is also extending the scope of its biometric systems, according to Fierce Homeland Security. The Homeland Security Department is able to tap into other countries’ fingerprint databases to identify individuals. The US and four other countries, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, share fingerprint information through a system called the Secure Real Time Platform.
Robert Mocny, director of US-Visit referring to the system that collects fingerprint scans of foreign travellers entering the US, is reported as saying that the DHS increasingly looks abroad for fingerprint information, which is linked to the FBI fingerprint database. In four locations, ‘soon to be all locations’, customs and border protection officials can access FBI data in real time.
According to the Vancouver Sun, Canada will soon begin sharing biometric information and other data about visa applicants with the US, which then may provide it to third countries under a treaty signed in December 2012. The biometric sharing initiative affects nationals of 29 countries and one territory seeking visas to Canada.
Under the immigration agreement, biograph-ic information name, date of birth and gender of visa applicants and asylum claimants will be shared by 2013. Biometric information, such as photos and fingerprints of select visa applicants, will be shared by 2014.
The government of Kuwait is seeking inter-national consultancy help for an automated biometric identification system (ABIS) project that aims to develop a single unified national biometric database of both citizens and resi-dents of Kuwait.
The Israel parliament, The Knesset, has approved the launch of a national biometric identification system to be tested at the begin-ning of 2013, according to local reports.
The trial period will span two years, during which Israel will establish a national biometric database and distribute smart identification cards to citizens who agree to provide biometric data such as fingerprints and digital photos of their faces.
The initial draft of the law has been revised due to opposition from privacy rights groups, fuelled by the theft of Israel’s national biometric database in 2006.
Global moves to extend the scope of national biometric identification systems
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News
Global moves to extend the scope of national biometric ID systems 1
New Zealand and EU act to bring secure identities to the internet 1
Biometrics Institute urges caution over plans for national pupil database 2
Ecuador deploys national bimodal system 2
Australia defence authorities pilot multimodal tech 2
Biometrics to play wider role in e-health 3
India authorities look to biometrics beyond its borders 3
Biometric voting systems hit snags in Africa 3
PIPA Solutions seeks crowd funding for fingerprint solution 3
IATA reports preference for biometrics for boarding 12
Car makers to monitor driving capabilities with biometrics 12
Chinese search engine Baidu to offer face search 12
Features
BEAT – biometrics evaluation and testing
Sébastien Marcel, Idiap Research Institute, introduces the EU BEAT project. 5
RapidDNA: a game changer in the law enforcement identification stakes Steve Gold reports. 7
Academia and industry collaboration to drive biometrics boom
Michael Fairhurst, IET Biometrics, looks at the state of play of industry-academic collaboration. 10
Regulars
Events Calendar 3
News in Brief 4
Product News 4
Company News 4
Comment 12
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New Zealand and EU act to bring secure identities to the internet
The close of 2012 saw moves by both New Zealand and EU authori-
ties to tackle the provision of secure internet IDs at a national level.
In December 2012 the New Zealand parliament passed the Electronic Identity Verification Act, which will enable private
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...Continued from front pagesector organisations to access the country’s RealMe service when it launches in 2013. Users provide facial biometric verification at enrol-ment. Public and private sector organisations will be able to verify that a person using a ser-vice over the internet is who they claim to be.
Also in December 2012 the Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation IAO unveiled the FutureID project, which aims to drive the everyday use of e-IDs by address-ing some of the major remaining challenges. FutureID is partially funded under the EC’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
FutureID aims to develop a standards-com-pliant open source e-ID client that makes e-IDs accessible from all major platforms, including mobile devices, across various protocols and for-mats. The programme will conceive and develop a comprehensive and coherent trust infrastruc-ture for Europe, integrating existing trust services and addressing issues such as liability.
FutureID will demonstrate and evaluate the results in two settings: a public healthcare ser-vice and an enterprise use case which addresses the integration of e-ID services into the corpo-rate value chain.
Biometrics Institute urges caution over plans for pupil database
The Biometrics Institute has called for caution over UK government
proposals to develop a national pupil database. Biometrics Institute chief executive Isabelle Moeller described the proposed database as a challenge for the privacy of UK citizens.
The proposal would allow private sector and other previously excluded groups to access the national database in order to enable research, edu-cation planning and other services to be performed.
The Biometrics Institute, an independent inter-national body representing biometrics users, aca-demia and the industry, calls for a major privacy assessment to be conducted before the national pupil database is opened for greater access.
Schools in England will be banned from col-lecting pupils’ biometric data without their par-ents’ consent from September, the Department for Education (DfE) ruled in December 2012.
The ban will also cover the use of data for iris and retina scanning, and face recognition. Children will also be able to withdraw consent.
The new provisions in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 will apply to all England’s schools and sixth-form colleges.
The DfE will issue separate advice for Business, Innovation and Skills to cover further education (FE) institutions with students under 18 years of age.
Schools will also have to make sure any data collected from pupils is treated with the appro-priate care, and make alternative arrangements for children who refuse to have their data taken.
Ecuador deploys national bimodal system
Russia-based Speech Technology Center (STC) has deployed a sys-
tem in Ecuador that combines voice and face identification capabilities for security purposes. The bimodal biometric system creates a forensic database that helps to identify per-sons suspected in a crime.
“As biometric technologies mature we’re see-ing a growing demand for these kinds of tailored voice and multi-modal biometric solutions not just in Latin America, but in the global market-place,” says Mikhail Khitrov, CEO of STC.
According to ‘Multi-Factor Authentication Market By Model / type (two-, three-, four- & five-factor), Application (Banking & Finance, Healthcare, Government, Defense, Travel & Immigration, Consumer Electronics and Commercial Security) & by Geography - Forecasts (2012 - 2017)’, pub-lished by MarketsandMarkets the multimodal market is expected to be worth $5.45bn by 2017, at a CAGR of 17.3%.
Australia defence authorities pilot multimodal tech
The Australian Department of Defence will trial a proof of concept
for an automated biometric information system (ABIS) from Northrop Grumman Corporation over six months in 2013.
The Australian system is based on the US Department of Defense Automated Biometric Identification System (DOD ABIS). Northrop Grumman is the prime contractor for the DOD ABIS system, the central repository for the US DOD multimodal (face, fingerprint, iris and palm) biometric identity records for persons of interest. The network-centric system is accessible worldwide and interfaces with other US government agency data sys-tems (see news story page 1).
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