RegardingID Archive | Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner coordinates effort to improve biometrics

Monday, June 23, 2008

Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, recently orchestrated the integration of products and services from PerSay, an Israeli voice biometrics provider, and Philips Priv-ID, a security firm based in the Netherlands, to help encrypt voice biometrics for added security, according to an InterGovWorld article. The purpose of the integration is to quash worries over identity theft and biometrics, especially by hackers.

The new model works in two ways that differ from current voice-recognition systems. First, the data is encrypted so that rather than storing the actual voiceprint that a user has, an algorithm convert the voiceprint to a mathematical representation prior to storage.

Secondly, the flow of information is reversed so that rather than sending information from user’s ID card to the servers where the data is stored, the servers send the data to the card. This means, that unlike person identifiers like vocal patterns, should the card information be stolen, it can always be replaced as none of the information contained on the card can be reverse engineered.

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MForce multi-modal biometrics improve positive identification rate

Biometrics provider Human Recognition Systems has developed an improved real time intelligence metric using fusion biometrics.

The system is based on the MForce identification platform and was developed as an open architecture called Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). With the new architecture, MForce can combine match scores from multiple biometric modalities, which improves the overall reliability identification rate, even if the data is poor or incomplete.

Biometrics Institute announces release of privacy charter

The Biometrics Institute, a biometrics industry organization engaged in the research, analysis and education of biometric technologies, announced the release of a privacy charter for early, according to a CIO article.

Fingerprint Cards extends Miaxis partnership with eye on Chinese banking sector

Sensor supplier Fingerprint Cards AB (FPC) has extended its partnership with Chinese biometrics provider Miaxis Biometrics Co. LTD to deliver biometrics products to the Chinese banking sector.

Canada enables bank cards for access to online government services

By Gina Jordan, contributing editor, Avisian Publishing

The Canadian government is working with financial services companies to enable consumer’s to use bank-issued credentials and payment cards for access to government services, negating the need for special purpose IDs and passwords that are infrequently used and thus difficult to remember.

ICBC’s offering of biometric services deemed illegal

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia breached the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act when it offered to help police agencies identify participants in the Vancouver riots following the city’s loss in the 2011 NHL Stanley Cup finals via their face recognition technology, according to a Canadian Underwriter article.

Aware sells patents to Intel for $75 million

In an effort to sell and/or license part of its patent portfolio, Massachusetts-based Aware Inc. has signed an agreement to sell some of its patents and patent applications to Intel Corporation for $75 million.

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Ontario’s Privacy Commissioner coordinates effort to improve biometrics