CONCEPT
In the context of future increasingly “digitalised” borders, new challenges for secure identity management and secure identity and travel documents could emerge in the coming years and decades.
EINSTEIN’s ground-breaking vision is to significantly expand existing physical and digital identity checks, privacy-preserving identity management and fraud detection capability used by border and police authorities.
APPROACH
EINSTEIN will develop, deploy and evaluate a novel set of interoperable applications addressing the whole identity lifecycle and applicable to a wide range of use cases and environments.
The applications are:
- Online document issuance: a web application which provides the eGovernment service for a citizen to apply online for a first time or renewal of a document (e.g. travel, identity) with the main innovation to detect and prevent fraudulent enrolment of biometrics uploaded by the applicant.
- Mobile document and identity checks: an application, available on mobile devices (smartphones, tablets), that will be able to scan ID documents and determine if the the document is likely to be fraudulent or not.
- Documents authentication: an application supporting document experts from immigration services and border authorities to authenticate travel, identity and breeder documents.
- Pre-registration for border crossings: an application to enable travellers to pre-register for (land) border crossings to enable enhanced security checks and overall improved border crossing experience for travellers and border guards.
- EES kiosk with advanced fraud detection: Development of a kiosk application to expedite entry of Third Country Natonals (TCNs) biometric and biographical data and to efficiently conduct fraud checks.
- Fast track biometric corridor: An application which allows the identity verification of travellers at a border without the traveller having to stop supporting a smoother experience for both travellers and border guards.
The applications integrate state-of-the-art technology for secure identity creation, protection and management, document fraud detection and identity verification on-the-fly.
The applications will undergo extensive technical and user acceptance tests and undergo rigorous ethical and legal impact assessments.
Privacy is an essential concern of all European citizens and governments. EINSTEIN will ensure that all components will take into account privacy-by-design principles and be very flexible to ease their customization in order to meet not only the European legislation on data protection but also the ever-evolving national legislations on this matter, which may vary significantly from one country to the other. Furthermore, EINSTEIN will implement a range of privacy enhancing technologies.