Project description
Advancing the fight against identity fraud
Identity and travel document fraud pose challenges for law enforcement and border control agencies. Despite technological advancements, highly skilled fraudsters continue to exploit vulnerabilities. Previous European innovation projects have struggled to transition to operational effectiveness. In this context, the EU-funded EINSTEIN project aims to step up the fight against identity fraud. Specifically, it will focus on public authorities’ capabilities with six cutting-edge applications. These include real-time biometric checks for online ID issuance and mobile document verification via smartphones. Piloting in diverse environments ensures operational readiness. Interoperability and privacy-by-design principles are core, ensuring compliance with varying national regulations. By harnessing advanced technologies and prioritising privacy, EINSTEIN is helping to win the fight against identity fraud across Europe.
Objective
Combatting frauds on identity and travel documents is a key mission of law enforcement agencies and border guards. Industries have been working on new means to combat frauds on identity, and public authorities are using numerous technologies to accomplish their mission, but permanent innovation is required to fight highly skilled defrauders. A number of European innovation projects have tested new ways to combat fraud but few of them reached an operational level.
EINSTEIN objectives is to enhance significantly existing public authorities’ means through innovation, building on technologies proven in the labs but not mature for an operational usage yet. EINSTEIN will deliver six applications essential to fight identity frauds: 1) online ID issuance using a secure cloud-based server for real-time biometric quality checks and fraud detection, 2) mobile document and identity checks using commercially available smartphones, 3) document authentication module to detect fraudulent documents, 4) pre-registration for land-border crossings including biometrics and DTC, 5) EES kiosk with advanced fraud detection using video surveillance, 6) fast track for enrolled travelers using on-the-move face and iris. To ensure TRL7 at a minimum, practitioners will run six different pilot use cases in their own environment. A key objective is also to ensure interoperability and flexibility of all the components developed in the project so that they can be reused in different contexts, possibly by different providers. Design of open, well-defined, standardized interfaces will allow achieving this objective.
Privacy being an essential concern of all European citizens and governments, EINSTEIN will take into account privacy-by-design principles, developing flexible components to ease their customization in order to meet not only the European legislation on data protection but also national legislations on this matter, which vary significantly from one country to the other.
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57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
Greece
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Participants (18)
10969 Berlin
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92400 Courbevoie
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Dundalk Louth
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
2821 Gjovik
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92200 NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE
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2595 DA Den Haag
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80686 Munchen
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10177 Athina
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7522 NB Enschede
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7491 Trondheim
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64295 Darmstadt
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40126 Bologna
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2500BZ The Hague
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2511CR Den Haag
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1202 Sofia
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101 77 Athens
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2001 CHISINAU
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812 72 Bratislava
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Partners (2)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
SW1P 4DF London
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
RG6 6AH Reading
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