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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

Contactless fingerprint biometrics move towards police deployment with UK trials

Nov 20, 2023, 3:21 pm EST

The performance of software and smartphone cameras for contactless fingerprint capture is promising enough to look towards a possible launch…

Nov 13, 2023	Image quality metrics can improve liveness detection Making biometric liveness detection reliable and explainable requires recognizing that it is more than an algorithm, Neurotechnology Research and Development…
Nov 1, 2023	Biometrics research could gain from open science approach to data management Open science approaches to handling data could make biometrics research more efficient, reproducible and applicable to real-world conditions, the audience…
Oct 2, 2023	Specificity crucial for useful biometrics tests, training with synthetic data: EAB panel Synthetic data may address privacy issues with biometric algorithm training, but it must be used carefully in facial recognition training…
Jun 19, 2023	Pilot shows digital travel credentials’ evolution in progress By Yunus Emre Yıldırım, Legal & Policy Intern at European Association for Biometrics Identity Week Europe 2023 was held in…
Jun 12, 2023	Facial recognition use in public spaces under the microscope in EAB event The use of facial recognition in public spaces is one of the most controversial topics in the field of biometrics,…
May 2, 2023	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 methods As 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 challenges Biometrics 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 GDPR Even 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 protection The 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 concerns The 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 April A 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 PAD Several 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 investigations Forensic 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 accuracy The 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 contends Strong 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 challenges YooniK 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 systems Thumbs 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 kiosks The UK’s Biometrics Self-Enrolment Feasibility Trials have reached Phase 2, with a request for expression of interest from developers of…