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European Association for Biometrics (EAB)
The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is the leading voice for digital ID and biometrics in Europe. We are a non-profit, nonpartisan association. The EAB’s mission is to tackle the complex challenges facing ID in Europe, ranging from migration to privacy rights. Our role is to promote the responsible use and adoption of modern digital identity systems that enhance people’s lives and drive economic growth.
European Association for Biometrics (EAB) Biometrics News
Be prepared for more fake news, cloned people and manipulated images
The growing accessibility and power of deepfakes and generative AI are causing headaches for fraud prevention professionals and forensic investigators,…
| Apr 27, 2023 | Some progress on protecting biometric templates, evaluating methodsAs biometric templates are more widely enrolled, stored and used, and the methods used to attack the privacy of people… |
| Apr 20, 2023 | Biometrics research community convenes in Switzerland to tackle top technical challengesBiometrics researchers have an array of ideas for technologies, metrics and architectures to address the most serious threats to biometric… |
| Mar 6, 2023 | Biometrics beyond encryption; ‘unlinkability’ and pseudonymization under GDPREven biometric templates secured with encryption are subject to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, and must be further protected, according… |
| Mar 2, 2023 | EAB explores how to comply with GDPR mandate for biometric template protectionThe European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation imposes new requirements for protecting biometric data, but debates and uncertainty about how… |
| Feb 1, 2023 | EAB seminar plays down EU parliament’s biometrics ethics concernsThe European Union’s ethical concerns connected with deploying artificial intelligence (AI) and biometrics applications across its territory may be excessive…. |
| Jan 24, 2023 | Program nearly set for biometrics workshop from EAB, CITeR and Idiap in AprilA joint biometrics workshop has been announced for later this year by the European Association for Biometrics and America’s Center… |
| Dec 29, 2022 | International biometrics standards development focus turns to PADSeveral new publications and events in 2022 advanced the gradually building body of international standards for biometrics. As that standardization… |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Danish forensic procedure addresses subjectivity in face biometrics investigationsForensic examinations of face biometrics for immigration cases in the Netherlands follow a procedure that both acknowledges and tries to… |
| Nov 17, 2022 | Facial recognition research community going beyond the algorithm to improve accuracyThe concept of ‘garbage in, garbage out’ applies to biometric systems just as easily as it does to coding or… |
| Nov 16, 2022 | Privacy preserving biometrics for strong ID proofing possible, Mobai researcher contendsStrong biometric identity verification standards and privacy regulations in Europe are at odds, but the situation is resolvable, according to… |
| Oct 19, 2022 | Biometrics with self-sovereign identity combo pitched to solve authentication challengesYooniK CEO and Co-founder Pedro Torres sees an important place for biometrics in self-sovereign identity, despite the two technologies having… |
| Oct 4, 2022 | Home Office identifies areas for improvement in biometrics self-enrollment systemsThumbs and eyeglasses are notable challenges for biometric self-enrollment solutions, the UK Home Office has found, and informed the audience… |
| Sep 23, 2022 | UK plans next round of biometrics self-enrollment trials for apps and kiosksThe UK’s Biometrics Self-Enrolment Feasibility Trials have reached Phase 2, with a request for expression of interest from developers of… |
| Sep 22, 2022 | Workshop on face image quality added to IFPC event as biometrics standard progressesA second edition of the Face Image Quality Workshop hosted last November by the European Association for Biometrics will be… |
| Sep 19, 2022 | 2022 EAB Awards honor research on barriers to ECG, finger vein, and face biometricsThe European Association for Biometrics (EAB) has named the 2022 European Biometrics Max Snijder, Research and Industry Awards winners. Winners… |
| Jul 28, 2022 | Morphing attack detection for face biometric spoofs needs more generalization, datasetsDeepfakes may get more press, but face morphing could be the more pressing security concern for border control systems using… |
| Jul 26, 2022 | Deepfake detection approaches from heart rate to lightweight considered in EAB workshopDeepfake detection was one of the main topics investigated in the recent workshop from the European Association for Biometrics on… |
| Jul 19, 2022 | Manipulated faces threaten trust in remote biometrics, new legal battlegroundsThe European Association for Biometrics addressed different potential harms related to face biometrics and technologies for digital manipulation of faces… |
| Jul 13, 2022 | SenseTime researcher presents progress on AI syncing faces with audioThe digital manipulation of faces can be used to spoof biometric systems or sow misinformation, but technology to coordinate face… |
European Association for Biometrics (EAB) Industry Insights
‘Biometrics in Banking’ seminar recap
This is a guest post by Max Snijder, secretary general of the European Association for Biometrics (EAB). On 24 October…
