Conference Session
The rise of soft biometrics and the social network
From authentication to identity recognition
Cyrille Bataller, Director, Accenture Technology Labs, France
Face processing in social networking services
Michael Thieme, Director of Special Projects, International Biometric Group, USA
Ethical framings and the future of biometric technologies
Paul McCarthy, Senior Analyst, GSI Ltd, Ireland
LUNCHTIME KEYNOTE
Before the onset of the ID Revolution: The commoditization of identity
Dr. Joseph J. Atick, Identity Counsel International, Director IBIA Cofounder & Director Emeritus
From authentication to identity recognition
Cyrille Bataller, Director, Accenture Technology Labs, France
Identity management is evolving from a series of discrete authentication, username/password or challenge-response schemes to a broader, holistic capability to seamlessly recognize people, online and in person, through many of their traits, to provide a differentiated service and customer experience, while increasing efficiency and security. This presentation will explore how identity analytics can be used to form a single view of the customer/citizen, and provide a foundation of trust for better, more relevant services, while preserving privacy and anonymity.
Speaker biography
Cyrille Bataller is the European Director of Accenture Technology Labs, the dedicated technology Research & Development organisation within Accenture, which has been turning bold ideas into game-changing results for over 20 years.
Based in Sophia Antipolis, France, Cyrille leads Accenture’s Security R&D activities, which includes identity (and biometrics), cyber security, and video analytics, notably supporting self service passport control solutions at London’s and Amsterdam’s airports, and large scale biometric identity management solutions such as US-VISIT, the European Commission’s Biometric Matching System, and the Unique ID programme in India
Face processing in social networking services
Michael Thieme, Director of Special Projects, International Biometric Group, USA
Social networking service (SNS) providers such as Facebook and Google have integrated face processing capabilities directly into their desktop and mobile workflows. These services can detect and match faces with surprisingly high degrees of reliability, even under off-angle and low-quality capture conditions.
Comparing online face processing performance with that of leading face recognition technologies provides insights into the fundamental differences between traditional and online face processing. Whereas the former is typically utilized to identify a small number of matches within a large database of images, online face processing is typically used to group a multiple faces within a given SNS account. This grouping capability, along with user confirmation of detected faces, provides a built-in training mechanism that may drive improved performance.
Supporting USG customers, IBG has conducted extensive evaluations of online face processing technologies, analyzing hundreds of thousands of images collected from a variety of online sources. IBG will present high-level findings from these evaluations, discussing implications for identity, privacy, and face recognition in general.
Speaker biography
Michael Thieme, Director of Special Projects at International Biometric Group, is an authority on biometric testing and performance and multi-biometric systems. Mr. Thieme leads IBG teams delivering integrated biometric systems and conducting biometric technology evaluations for US Government and commercial customers. Mr. Thieme leads IBG's online identity services practice, leading advanced research and development in online and virtual identity.
Mr. Thieme is the primary author of IBG's performance test reports and Biometric Market and Industry Report series. He is the Chair of INCITS M1.5 - Biometric Performance Testing and Reporting and is the editor of ISO and ANSI biometric performance testing standards.
Ethical framings and the future of biometric technologies
Paul McCarthy, Senior Analyst, GSI Ltd, Ireland
Biometric technologies continue to develop, an observation borne out by the dramatic expansion in the range of and scope of new developments in the types and form of their implementation. This raises the question as to whether from an ethical standpoint new directions, new framings, and resolutions of issues is required. Ethical debates are often depicted in discussions on biometric technologies as being linked to monolithic unchanging values. Often ethical, sociological and technical discourse on biometrics represents the major ethical issue of biometric technologies as revolving around the trade-off(s) between security and freedom. This arguably unfairly misrepresents both the vitality of ethical discourse and limits fruitful ethical engagement with new issues arising out of the changing nature of biometric deployments ‘beyond the border’. This presentation will illustrate how other ethical directions are critical in dealing with problems and issues in one specific development, soft-biometrics. It will explore how alternative notions to liberty and security, such as community, can illuminate the much wider impacts and potential issues that these developments engender
Speaker biography
Paul’s research expertise encompasses the social, ethical and legal impacts of new and emerging technologies involving surveillance, ICTs, nanotechnology, biotechnology and neuroscience. He also specialises in designing and implementing empirical research methodologies, which he taught for 10 years at the undergraduate to doctoral level in Ireland, the UK, Russia and China. Before joining GSI, he was co-Theme Leader at the CESAGen (Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics), funded by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and based at Lancaster University, which he joined after research employment in China and Russia.
Paul also co-led research at Cardiff University where he was seconded as operations manager for CESAGen. He has worked on ESRC and Wellcome Trust funded projects and managed CESAGen’s portfolio of European projects on biometrics, new developments in ICTs, biotechnology and technology assessment. He taught ethics at Lancaster’s medical school, supervised masters and doctoral students and taught undergraduate courses related to his research interests.
He has published book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals, and contributed to reports for the European Commission and the European Network Information Security Agency (ENISA). He has written articles on privacy and biometrics for the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Applied Ethics.
LUNCHTIME KEYNOTE
Before the onset of the ID Revolution: The commoditization of identity
Dr. Joseph J. Atick, Identity Counsel International, Director IBIA Cofounder & Director Emeritus
The impact of Unitary Identity schemes and Social Media on identity is becoming clear as these developments become more pervasive in society and we head towards an effective commoditization of identity, where proof of identity is readily available to all and for all circumstances. This is the commoditization that is supposed to precede the onset of the identity revolution, with identity broadly harnessed for social good. But in such a world, it is also natural to expect that an increasing number of actions, even disproportionate to any threat, would require identification; and more and more of these identifications would be cross linked and their data byproducts added to a swelling number of databases in the guise of audit trails.
Effectively when identity is commoditized it is no longer limited to a set of unrelated singular actions or isolated snapshots of human lives, but in fact we see the emergence of “identity orbits,” where all actions are continually traceable, searchable and attributable to unique identities. The implications of such identity orbits are profound to current human values and goes beyond the threat to our right to privacy.
In this presentation we will examine identity commoditization and elaborate on its implications. We will seek instances in history where society may have faced similar challenges in its attempts to protect its values in the face of technological advances. We will then present these inspirations within a proposed framework for the responsible management of identity. We will argue, among other things, that managing anonymity must be part and parcel of any scheme of identity management that will respect human rights while delivering on the promises of the identity revolution.
Speaker biography
Dr. Joseph Atick is Chairman, Identity Counsel International, France.
Prior to that he was Executive Vice President and Chief Strategic Officer of L-1 Identity Solutions and set overall strategic direction for product development, technology investment and support of merger and acquisition activities.
He is one of the early pioneers of the biometrics industry, involved in its early phases of development through the validation and current commercialization growth phase. Prior to joining L-1 Identity Solutions, Dr. Atick served as President and CEO of Identix. Prior to that, he co-founded one of the original facial recognition companies, Visionics Corporation.
Over the years, Dr. Atick co-founded and managed several companies focused on technology transfer and development, and has served as a technical advisor to many high-tech enterprises and organizations, including NATO. He led the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory at Rockefeller University and the Neural Cybernetics Group at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
Dr. Atick is a highly sought after speaker at high level industry conferences and a frequent commentator in the media. He also testified several times before congressional committees. Dr. Atick holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from Stanford University.
Conference at a glance
29 October 2012
08.00 Delegate Coffee & Tea
09.30 Conference Opening
17.30 End of Day One
30 October 2012
08.00 Delegate Coffee & Tea
09.00 Conference Sessions
Exhibition Opens
17.00 End of Conference Day Two
17:15-19:00 Evening Drinks Reception
31 October 2012
08.00 Delegate Coffee & Tea
09.00 Conference Sessions
Exhibition Opens
16.00 Close of Conference and Exhibition
Delegate Refreshments
