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SafeTravellers: Secure and Frictionless Identity for EU and Third Country National Citizens

Project description

ID checks that do not compromise personal data

Identity theft is a pervasive issue, with millions falling victim worldwide. In the EU, sophisticated fraudulent attacks are on the rise, affecting 1 in 2 Europeans in the last two years alone. Security officials warn of an ‘epidemic’, fuelled by demand from asylum-seekers and terrorists using counterfeit documents. In this context, the EU-funded SafeTravellers project aims to bolster border security and provide tools to combat identity fraud. Its approach involves multi-biometric identification, enhancing current verification methods while ensuring GDPR compliance and protecting citizen privacy. With SafeTravellers, border crossings become seamless, using a distributed European Multi-Biometric Data Space to facilitate secure identity checks without compromising personal data.

Objective

Identity theft is rapidly expanding, causing substantial financial loss to millions of people all around the world. This invisible crime is also widespread across EU countries, where a growing number of citizens is targeted by sophisticated fraudulent attacks each year, both offline and online. 56% of Europeans have experienced at least one type of fraud in the last two years. European security officials speak of an “epidemic” created by a spike in demand from asylum-seekers and from terrorists carrying counterfeit documents to enter the EU. Security documents are increasingly being counterfeited or tampered with by criminals to facilitate transnational crime. The continued vulnerability of different types of identity and travel documents makes it extremely difficult to combat this problem. SafeTravellers value proposition aims at a) strengthening the security at the borders, b) improving the productivity of the Border Authorities and LEAs by providing them with the appropriate tools to combat identity fraud at the hardware, identity and travel document, and biometrics level, while c) offering a frictionless border crossing experience for EU/TCN citizens as they will not have to stop at the border checkpoints. SafeTravellers is both proposing a new way of citizen identification based on multiple biometrics instead of the problematic identity document, as well as an enhancement of the current way of identity verification at the borders through a set of tools that will detect attacks at the biometric hardware, identity and travel document fraud and attempts to falsify biometrics. The proposed solution is GDPR compliant and introduces various privacy-preserving mechanisms to safeguard the citizens' rights. Through the distributed European Multi-Biometric Data Space offered by SafeTravellers, each Member State will keep in its jurisdiction the personal data of its country nationals while allowing cross-border identity checks without transferring or revealing any biometric data.

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Coordinator

INOV INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES INOVACAO
Net EU contribution

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€ 458 757,66
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€ 458 757,66

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