Challenge
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The reliability of biometric technologies is unknown. In particular the following criteria are often unknown or impossible to compare against competitors:
- The performance of the underlying biometric system
- The robustness to vulnerabilities such as direct (spoofing) or indirect attacks, and the strength of privacy preservation techniques. The lack of standard operational evaluations is the reason that we cannot measure the reliability of these biometric technologies. Some initiatives exist in Europe, the USA, and Asia. However, these initiatives are: isolated, disorganised, or limited in time. This leads to discontinuous and non-integrated efforts which have a limited life span.
Focus of work
During the first meeting, the TG defined its focus more towards standardisation of testing methods, and decided to address the following areas where biometrics has a particular application:
- Automated Border Controls
- Physical access control
- Logical access control
- Mobile identity checks (‘on-the-spot challenge’/virtual zones in restricted areas of operation of critical infrastructures);
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Main deliverables
The reports produced by this thematic group are available in the knowledge hub.