New Identity Week Reports Delve Into Deepfakes, Border Control

Identity Week has published a pair of new reports offering high-level analysis of two of the most important topics in today’s identity industry.

One of them is deepfakes. IdentityWeek.net’s report, “The Next Challenge: The Gold Standard for Defeating AI Deepfakes”, delves into the efforts of biometrics firms to pioneer sophisticated systems that can effectively detect and flag synthetic images that purport to show genuine faces and other biometric credentials. It draws on expertise from the likes of iProov, Sumsub, and TECH5, and also includes commentary from the Iceland-based e-ID specialist Auðkenni, and HAND, which is building a global ID registry.

Importantly, the report also outlines the regulatory landscape for AI in the context of the European Union’s incoming AI Act, and highlights the important role that America’s National Institute of Standards and Technology is playing in assessing anti-spoofing technologies.

IdentityWeek.net remains stateside to set the groundwork for its other new report, “Biographic to biometric data collection: The exclusion of ‘selective disclosure’ rights for travel”. Starting with a look at US Customs and Border Protection’s 20-year effort to establish a comprehensive biometric border control system, the report zooms out to assess how the concept of “Selective Disclosure” has been applied in other large-scale border control initiatives including the European Union’s impending Entry/Exit System and Finland’s pioneering Digital Travel Credential efforts in partnership with private sector organizations in air travel and tourism.

Along the way, the report also makes detours in Austria and Singapore to look at alternative approaches to modern border control, and it looks at the important roles that cross-national organizations like the International Civil Aviation Organisation and FRONTEX have played in developing digital border standards and infrastructure.

Both of the above topics – deepfake tech and biometric border control – are rapidly evolving trends with a global impact. So it’s only fitting that Identity Week, an organization dedicated to fostering the identity industry’s discourse across multiple global regions, would tackle them in new, dedicated reports.

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July 30, 2024 – by Alex Perala