The Convergence of Public and Private Biometric Solutions

CIBRA 2013

Bill Dumont – Executive Vice President M2SYS Technology

Traditional Public Sector Solutions

Law Enforcement Military Border Control

Elections Population Registries

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Private Sector Solutions

Healthcare Finance Access Control

Time and Attendance Fraud Reduction

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Sector Growth

41%

59%

2009

Private Sector Public Sector

55%

45%

2017

Private Sector Public Sector

Source: Acquity Marketing Intelligence

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Historic Demand Drivers In The Public Sector

• 9-11 US, 7-5 UK, 11-26 India Terrorist Events

– Creation of DHS/Home Office/etc.

– US Visit Program

• Iraqi and Afghan Wars

– Identification of enemy combatants – mobile

– Background checks of military

• UID Program in India

• HSPD-12

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Enemy combatant ID

9-11-2001

Major Drivers In The Public Sector In the Past

• Large Population Registries like RENAPO- 110M (Mexico), India – 300M(so far), Indonesia 100M, etc.

• Election Projects – Venezuela, Bolivia, Nigeria, Pakistan, etc.

• “e” passports and visas around the world

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RENAPO Biometric Voter Registration ePassports

What is Driving Private Sector Growth?

• Stigma attached to biometrics is reducing

– Convenience vs. civil liberties

• Senator Al Franken – US asking questions

• Clear Me Is A Good Example

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Clear Me

What is Driving Private Sector Growth?

Security

Fraud

Convenience

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Security

• Physical Security

– Buildings

– Sensitive areas

– Data rooms and racks

• Logical security

– Single sign-on

– Mobile sign-on

– Computer sign-on

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Buildings Data rooms and racks

Single sign-on

Fraud

• Banking transactions

• Contact centers

– Account take-overs

• Employment

• On line purchases (card not present)

• Healthcare

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Bank Fraud

Healthcare Fraud

Convenience

• Go to the head of the line (Clear Me)

• Pay by touch

• Logging in

• Contact centers (avoid all the questions)

• Registering quickly

– Healthcare

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Pay By Touch

Iris biometrics for patient registration

What’s Facilitating Private Sector Growth?

• More familiarity and acceptance of biometrics

• Additional modalities

– Voice biometrics

– Iris at a distance

– Improved facial recognition

– Finger vein and palm vein

• Passive recognition/matching

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Facial recognition

Finger vein

Palm vein

Crossover Between Private and Public

• Government usage beyond law enforcement make biometrics more acceptable

• As the government becomes more secure by the use of biometrics, the private sector emulates

• Use of more secure documents carries over

– Driver’s licenses to credit cards – smart chips

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Biometric credit cards Biometric drivers licenses

Crossover Between Private and Public

• Government data breaches with WikiLeaks and Snowden brings heightened awareness to private sector

• First mobile in military and law enforcement, not catching on in personal mobile market

– Especially as the mobile is used for more applications every day

• Voice biometrics started in law enforcement

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Law enforcement mobile biometrics

Consumer mobile biometrics Voice biometrics

Crossover Between Private and Public

• Healthcare

– Government funded and reimbursements even when there are private hospitals involved

• Perfected and refined by governments and now commercial usage

– Passive technologies like facial recognition and iris at a distance

• People are vetted for jobs by government biometric databases

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What’s Next?

Government sharing biometric and demographic information for private enterprises.