PREVENTING IDENTITY FRAUD BY USING BIOMETRIC CONTROL SYSTEM SECURITY MECHANISMS.

Machine-readable passports have been introduced since the 1980s and nowadays there are more than 120 countries with ePassport and eID system in place, with a high level of security and control mechanisms making harder for identity thieves to counterfeit the system and thereby reducing the risk of fraud. The aim of this paper is to introduce the latest control mechanisms of biometric access control and identification systems, which use the more common biometric technologies like fingerprint, iris, and palm print and facial recognition. In this paper we will present the most used control mechanisms for protecting security of the document and / or privacy of the passport holder data in the contactless chip in conformity to the ICAO 9303 specification with the LDS (Logical Data Structure) and functionalities such as Basic Authentication Control and Extended Access control. Furthermore we will introduce the advent of the third generation of ePassports system, the new security mechanism, Supplemental Access Control (SAC) toward the other used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]