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The General Directorate of the Police wants to incorporate an "automatic biometric digital identity system" that will store data on the physiognomy and measurements of the citizens' faces, which will be added to the existing one by means of a fingerprint to use it as an additional security measure in the new ID and passports.

This has been learned thanks to a hiring announcement published in the Official State Gazette (BOE) with which the Police seeks to obtain a sophisticated biometric digital identity system that, in addition to fingerprints, will

allow the identification and search of users by the measurements of their face

in the official documentation issued by the body.

According to the Spanish General Data Protection Regulation, "biometric data are those personal data referring to the physical, physiological or behavioral characteristics of a person that

facilitate their unique identification

" such as facial images or fingerprints.

According to the BOE announcement, the Police value this new technology (which must consist of software and hardware) for the identification of citizens at

4,436,363.64 euros

.

"It is intended to incorporate the capabilities of identification and biometric verification to the issuance processes of the National Electronic Identity Document and Electronic Passport of a mechanism

based on a central system that allows to identify Spanish citizens

through their facial and fingerprint biometric characteristics, only in the field of issuing their national identity documents ", reads the technical specifications of the contract.

Currently there is a fingerprint identity verification system comparing the fingerprint of a citizen with the fingerprint of the DNI in order to

verify their identity or renew their documents

.

"This has been an identity verification mechanism that to date has been sufficient to guarantee the strong registration of the people to whom the qualified electronic certificates are going to be issued that will allow, through the use of the DNIe as a secure creation device. signature, that

their electronic signatures have the same validity as their handwritten signatures

, "the document assures.

However, technological evolution "makes it more efficient today to

migrate local biometric verification to other

service-based

identification models,

incorporating identification capabilities through searches in databases implemented using standards and incorporating

multimodal fusion methods. (facial and fingerprint image) to civil identification processes

", indicates the technical specifications.

For this, the biometric identification services that the Police seeks to acquire "will be implemented on a commercial system of the highest quality and efficiency that will be composed of the software and hardware components necessary for the use of an unlimited number of users" that may be installed "

at any point determined by the General Directorate of the Police

.

"

Open door to its integration with security cameras

One of the most striking points of the technical specifications is that it does not rule out that the biometric measurements taken by the system

are

not

integrated in some way with those taken by security cameras in the future

.

However, he clarifies that, "

in a first phase

", this will not happen, but leaves the door open in the future.

"In a first phase, latent fingerprint images or facial images collected by means of low-resolution CCTV cameras will not be admissible,

this functionality being addressed in a second phase that may be implemented

provided that the legal regulations that enable this use ", pick up the sheet.

Subject of debate

There is a

great debate at the international level

about the use of biometric and facial recognition technologies used by the State security forces and bodies.

Some countries like China use it extensively as a measure of surveillance, social control and a way to identify fraud through the use of security cameras connected to

biometric identification systems

(something to which the sheet leaves the door open) and that has been the subject of much criticism.

In addition, some police forces in the United States also

use this type of technology

.

However, states like California have banned biometric facial systems from being used by law enforcement.

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