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

Descripción del proyecto

Unos controles de identidad que no comprometan los datos personales

El robo de identidad es un problema generalizado del que son víctimas millones de personas en todo el mundo. En la Unión Europea aumentan los ataques fraudulentos sofisticados, que solo en los dos últimos años han afectado a uno de cada dos europeos. Los responsables de la seguridad advierten de una «epidemia», impulsada por la demanda de solicitantes de asilo y terroristas que utilizan documentos falsos. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto SafeTravellers, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende reforzar la seguridad fronteriza y proporcionar herramientas para combatir el fraude de identidad. Su planteamiento implica la identificación multibiométrica, mediante la mejora de los métodos de verificación actuales al tiempo que se garantiza el cumplimiento del Reglamento General de Protección de Datos y se protege la privacidad de los ciudadanos. Con SafeTravellers, los cruces fronterizos se realizan sin contratiempos, utilizando un espacio europeo de datos multibiométricos distribuido para facilitar unos controles de identidad seguros sin comprometer los datos personales.

Objetivo

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.

Coordinador

INOV INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES INOVACAO
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 458 757,66
Dirección
RUA DE ALVES REDOL 9
1000 029 LISBOA
Portugal

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Continente Área Metropolitana de Lisboa Área Metropolitana de Lisboa
Tipo de actividad
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Coste total
€ 458 757,66

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