2018 was the year that Artificial Intelligence (AI) succeeded in surpassing human parity in spoken natural language recognition and real-time translation of conversations. That is, the ability of a machine to articulate spoken speech. Evolutionarily, it will be the AI that causes the acceleration of its use in actions such as cognitive services, artificial vision, reading comprehension, lip reading, vein reading, voice and speech.
There are telecommunications companies that today are changing their technology turn to sell data, for all kinds of commercial and social projects. They become Data-centric and make Date-driven decisions.
For years we have learned from technology, now AI is learning from us. AI seeks human parity by approaching our quintessentially human characteristics. It is a fact that the closeness between the digital society and the physical world is accelerating.
Fingerprints are hard to beat as they offer a very precise level of certainty. Among the main biometric security systems are proof of life with facematch and touchless type fingerprint biometrics.
Certainly, nobody has an airtight security and even less, when the databases have such a high value. Cyber attacks are increasing every day, and the work of the companies that capture the data, and sell it to the highest bidder, is becoming more active every day. Anyone who has faced identity theft knows how difficult it is to clear up these crimes.
Imagining for a moment that our biometric data is compromised and used in turn to commit other types of crimes is very delicate. It is not the same, the use of a password to a fingerprint, based on biometric data. The figures reported in Mexico alone, according to the National Commission for the Defense and Protection of Users (CONDUSEF), throughout 2021, were 2 million 745 thousand 738 cyber frauds.
For the National Institute of Transparency, Access to Information and Protection of Personal Data -INAI, biometric data “are physical, physiological, behavioral properties or personality traits. These are attributable to a single person and are measurable; example: fingerprints, the face, the retina, the shape of the ears, skin, DNA, the iris, the structure of the veins of the hand.
The growth of companies that will ensure digital security, identity validation, creating cyber security for companies or individuals, is on the rise and the legal loopholes are enormous, worldwide. “Without adequate security mechanisms, we will be perfect targets for scammers and hackers looking to harm users. Biometrics must be at the center of risk and threat prevention strategies.”
The big questions: Who will store and file this digital data, who will be the owner of that fingerprint that will now include biometric data? Who will punish those who misuse it? How will we achieve a digital society that provides security to users and legal certainty?
Companies should be forced by law to give back rights to the user on what to do with their digital data, can we assume that there will be supervision over even more sensitive biometric data?