IDEMIA's Top 4 Trends
in Biometrics for 2020

The full potential of biometrics is yet to come. The public and private sectors drive its growing use. In our increasingly connected world, biometrics is set as one of the key enabler of its digital transformation. Today, the biometric industry’s central focus is to protect our identity and improve security for all of us. As the world leader in biometric solutions, IDEMIA defines the top four biometric trends for 2020.

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Use of
multi-biometric identification

an additional level
of security

Combining multiple types of biometrics enhances security and adds granularity.
Therefore, we will see more and more solutions offering multi-biometric identification.

top-notch technology to secure data

an additional level of security

Due to their increased usage, biometric data becomes more exposed. 2020 will be about developing new methods of encryption and computing to keep our data safe.

Wide-spread adoption of facial recognition technology

an additional level of security

Facial recognition is a great technology that is already used in areas such as retail, travel, banking or law enforcement. No wonder its use will continue to expand in 2020.

Development of a regulatory and ethical framework for the use of facial

an additional level of security

Facial recognition has significant problem-solving potential for both security- and convenience-related use cases, but it also raises privacy concerns. In 2020, we will see the development of new regulatory and ethical frameworks to define the way biometrics technologies should be used.

Use of multi-biometric identification

top-notch technology
to secure data

WIDE-SPREAD ADOPTION OF FACIAL
RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY

DEVELOPMENT OF A REGULATORY AND
ETHICAL FRAMEWORK FOR THE USE OF FACIAL

FINGERPRINT

Citizens can now use their biometrics to cross a border or to access value-added services in Nepal. Nepalese citizens can use their ID cards to interact with their bank, which is why both fingerprint and iris data are embedded into the card for maximum security.

IRIS

Travelers can now breeze through the airport’s touchpoints and experience a smoother and safer journey. Thanks to their face and irises, they can be securely identified with a look.

FACIAL RECOGNITION

Today citizens can register remotely through their smartphone to access value-added services. As simple as a selfie, a picture of their face is taken and verified to secure an online transaction with their bank. Whereas, officers patrolling the streets can now use mobile biometric devices integrating fingerprints and faces to verify the identities of individuals on the spot.

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We can already unlock our smartphone with either our fingerprint or face.

Another example is the national ID card in Nepal. Nepalese citizens can use their ID cards to interact with their bank, which is why both fingerprint and iris data are embedded into the card for maximum security.

For law enforcement agencies, mobile biometric devices, using fingerprint and face, have been developed to enable officers to verify the Identity of individuals while patrolling the streets.

The use of biometrics calls for

top‑notch technology to secure data

Secure multi-party computation

While securing data in rest and in transit is quite common, the trickiest part is to secure data that is being processed. Traditionally, the processing party had to be able to ‘see’ data to be able to work with it.

the risk connected with this method is significantly reduced when the work of processing the data is shared between different parties

It means that there is not one central player processing all the open, vulnerable data, but several contributors. Only by breaching the data processed by each player would the data make sense to the malicious perpetrator.

Verifiable computing

Verifiable computing means that one central entity can outsource the computing of data to another potentially unknown, not previously verified entity, while maintaining verifiable results. In the world of biometrics this could mean that we could do the matching of our own data to verify our identity, for example on our smartphone (i.e. the unknown, not verified entity), without anyone doubting the validity of the computing we have done.

this would mean that we control our biometric data at all times AS it would never leave Your device

Homomorphic encryption

Homomorphic encryption already protects data both at rest and in transit. However, the Holy Grail that we will see developing in 2020 is to apply this encryption technology also to data that is being processed.

the goal is simple – to ensure the data processor cannot decipher or even understand the content that is being processed.

It is a method of performing calculations on encrypted information, without decrypting it first. With this last step, end-to-end data privacy can be achieved, given that at no moment in time data is exposed without protection.

Today, facial recognition is already used to enable security and convenience in many use cases.

As facial recognition continues to be widely implemented, some new use cases should develop in 2020.

The Facial recognition

Facial recognition replaces the need to look for physical keys (or mobile devices) to open a vehicle and drive away

More and more proof of concepts will emerge:

Enabling drivers to access their vehicles and start the engine by simply showing their face

Protection of public places with video analytics.

This technology will play an increasingly important role in providing effective solutions to detect threats.

Citizens need to know

how their data is used, how long it is saved and for what reason

As a leading provider in the industry, IDEMIA encourages the cooperation between governments, private sectors and providers of the technology

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To define a framework that allows us all to benefit from this technology while addressing the public’s concerns
To address unease, 2019 has already seen several attempts to develop regulatory and, arguably more importantly, ethical frameworks that define the way facial recognition technology should be used

IDEMIA notably contributes to Biometrics Institute, an independent international forum for biometric users, committed to the Ethical Principles for Biometrics.

Click here for more information: https://www.biometricsinstitute.org/ethical-principles-for-biometrics

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