On 18-19 April 2023, we participated in biometrics workshop organized by Idiap Research Institute and European Association for Biometrics. There we had the opportunity to exchange knowledge with leading Academic, Industrial, and State experts: on the best practices on processing, securing, and respecting the data privacy with biometrics, as well as the DeepFakes, presentation attacks, video injections, and their corresponding alleviations. We presented our company’s approach in addressing these challenges, which have been received very positively by these valuable experts.

Indeed, Presentation Attacks, Deep Fakes, Morphing attacks, Video Injection attacks, etc. have been evolving for a long time. This has recently created some hype in public conversations, and some even haphazardly suggested dropping biometric checks altogether in age assurance. In stark contrast to these perceptions, these attack vectors have been in the radar of biometrics experts for many years, and they have been studied very well. The countermeasures evolve faster than the problems can spread, and they are available for industry players to apply.

Indeed, Privately SA’s age estimation technology has its roots in rigorous research, in collaboration with IDIAP and EPFL. Our on-device, real-time liveness check architecture is resilient by design to many such attacks, especially video injection and Deepfakes. When it comes to determining the age of a user, we see that biometrics-based solutions are very well suited – and we’ve got our UKGDPR, EAL2, EAL1 certifications and regulator audits to prove it. Biometrics-based age estimation also works much better than other approaches – self-declaration, credit cards, database checks on phone numbers/credit scores, etc. have their own problems in efficacy and privacy, and they’re much easier to be spoofed by malicious actors.

Thank you Dinusha Frings, Marcela Hernandez, and Sébastien Marcel for the organization of the workshop, and we’re looking forward to many fruitful exchanges in this domain.

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