The Open Biometrics Initiative and World Card
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Abstract The Open Biometrics Initiative challenges hard and fast classification of biometric data. It cracks open the clean fabrication of automated biometric identification. The first version of the Open BiometricsInitiative is dedicated to finger print analysis. A custom designed machine calculates and prints the same data that law enforcement agencies use to check one’s identity. Instead of matching the data to a database of criminals, this machine calculates an unfiltered set of characteristic points as a probabilistic IDcard, defying reductionist classification.
DescriptionWorld Card is an extension to the Open Biometrics Initiative. It is a new conception of biometric data management. It proposes to out-data collect the data collectors by creating a free identity card with allpossible forms of biometric data in a format accepted by law enforcement agencies. Law enforcement agencies would be required to consult these cards prior to claiming to know the identity of a suspect. Phase I of the Open Biometrics Initiative is a functioning machine that offers an alternate analysis of fingerprints. The machine utilizes the same techniques from the domains of signal processing and image analysis as other biometric readers. However, this machine differs in its handling of the data and the intermediate results it generates. As opposed to claiming binary clarity and ultimate authority, the resultset of a finger scan is a mathematically precise but open list of probable results. It allows the user insight into the internals of an otherwise hidden process. In the case of finger scan analysis, the machine prints this information as a map of all characteristic points (the minutiae) of a finger scan, indicating the type of point (ridge ending, bifurcation or dot) and the probability that the point exists. Final evaluation of the significance of this data is left open. World Card, an extension to the Open Biometrics Initiative, is a proposal for a new conception of biometric data management. Instead of proposing legislature to limit biometric data capture, World Card proposes to give the people a complete set of (their own) data in a format accepted by law enforcement agencies. No government agency should have more data from a person than a person him/herself. In the future, biometric data proliferation and management will have the urgency of wastewater treatment. Solutions to this problem need to be imagined before it begins to stink. This talk will discuss the Open Biometrics Initiative and its extension to the World Card Project.
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