Civil AFIS

Civil AFIS = Automated Fingerprint Identification System oriented to civil purposes Automated fingerprint

Identification is used as a high secure method to verify the identity of individuals in the system: Identification: to confirm that individuals are “who they say they are”.

Searching for actual identity: looking for the existence of matching fingerprints, of the same individual, what makes possible to find out false identities and to avoid fraud.

The range of possible applications is very wide, although main ones are:

- ID Documents: Ensure the identity of the individual who is holding the document or of the one who is asking for a new issue.

Ensure that an individual using a false identity is not holding any more a valid document, in the case was holding a previous one.

- Polling Processes: to Identify individuals at the polling stations, and to avoid fraud. Legal and Notarial Acts: it allows to ensure the identity of the holders or legal actors to carry on legal procedures.

- Airports and Border Control: it allows to ensure the identity of individuals against “black lists” of high risk or interest.

- Funding Agencies and Banks: It allows to ensure the identity of individuals when asking for a funding product, money transactions, and access to manage stocks. Govermental Agencies and Access to Social Assistance Incomes: It allows the identification of individuals to receive the pension, allowance, etc. - Interconnection architecture could be the next one, in a secure environment:

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