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Identity Documents: Risk Reduction and Service Enhancement?!

Claudia Hager, MBAExecutive Director

Risk Reduction

Why?• Increased mobility of people• Increased threat of terrorism

How?• Link the travel document more closely to

its bearer• Acquire more data about the bearer to be

able to more securely verify his identity

Document development

• More data about the bearer• More secure against counterfeiting

Verification is Key

• Security features in documents need to be verified for authenticity to be secure

Damage

Banknote vs. Document

Service Enhancement

How?• Quick• Convenient• Preferred Service• Secure

Verification Requirements

• Travel document genuine• Chip data identical to data page • Document issued by trusted authority• Person presenting the passport is the

person to whom passport was issued• Check with watchlist (SIS, Europol,

Interpol, National DB,..)

Service Enhancement

• By automated border control (ABC)• By trusted traveller programms• By channeling travellers

by country of origin (EU/non-EU,..)

Reality

• ePassport verification without fingerprint around 5 sec net

• ePassport verification with fingerpintreading around 13 sec net

• ABC around 20 sec in total• Shall a machine decide about

immigration?

Thank you

Claudia Hager, MBATel: +43 1 20666 308

hager@staatsdruckerei.at