Description

ID:Talks are bonus presentations in the exhibit hall and are not components of the formal agenda produced by the FedID Planning Committee.

Brazil is setting up a national biometric database to guarantee the identity of each citizen. The project started in 2008 with the biometric enrollment of voters and now has over 100 million people in the database, enrolling at a rate of more than 3 million people per month, including rolled tenprints, face and signature. The goal is to register all 210M citizens in the coming years. The project allows Brazil to have a centralized and standardized database and has become one of the most advanced large-scale biometric identification projects in the world. The system is not limited to fingerprint and face biometrics, it also has the capability of handling other modalities like palmprints, iris, latent prints and newborn palmprints. It has so far detected more than 40 thousand biometric duplicities and prevented numerous fraud attempts, the most notorious one is of a citizen that had 52 fraudulent identities. Law enforcement agencies nationwide are also starting to perform crime scene searches against the database, which will drastically increase crime resolution rates in Brazil. The National Civil Identity project not only allows other government agencies to identify citizens with the use of biometrics, but also foresees the possibility of private institutions making biometric validations against the database. In addition, the government has started issuing digital identification documents linked to the biometric database. The document is installed on a cell phone and replaces any other physical document. This presentation will delve into the challenges and on-going successes Brazil experiences since its inception of the large-scale nationwide biometric identification system.