Following the passing of the UK ID Card Bill last week, eema, the European association for e-business, has announced it would be addressing identity cards and biometrics at the ISSE event in Budapest, on September 27-29.
Sessions will cover the technologies and reliability as well as emerging concerns over security and cost of the proposed scheme.
Co-organised by eema, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA), and TeleTrusT, hosted by the Hungarian Ministry of Informatics and Communications, and supported by the German Ministry of Economics and Labour, the event is what organisers call a debate on key security issues and challenges facing IT professionals. A focus is on security as part of business processes and electronic transactions.
What they say
"The pitfalls and strengths of biometrics in secure processes including ID cards and passports continue to generate mass debate," says Head of Special Projects at eema, Roger Dean. "The technologies involved are revolutionary and will be a part of everyday life within the next few years. ISSE will examine the effects and consequences of those technologies on the secure IT industry and society as a whole."
US citizens are already using biometric passports and have given an extension to some European countries including the UK, Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden to implement their widespread use before October 2008 to avoid visas on visits to the country. Such passports, eema report, have an integrated circuit chip capable of storing biographic data (such as iris scans and fingerprints) and a digitised photograph, matching the documents to the person.
