Ann Cavoukian, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, recently orchestrated the integration of products and services from PerSay, an Israeli voice biometrics provider, and Philips Priv-ID, a security firm based in the Netherlands, to help encrypt voice biometrics for added security, according to an InterGovWorld article. The purpose of the integration is to quash worries over identity theft and biometrics, especially by hackers.
The new model works in two ways that differ from current voice-recognition systems. First, the data is encrypted so that rather than storing the actual voiceprint that a user has, an algorithm convert the voiceprint to a mathematical representation prior to storage.
Secondly, the flow of information is reversed so that rather than sending information from user’s ID card to the servers where the data is stored, the servers send the data to the card. This means, that unlike person identifiers like vocal patterns, should the card information be stolen, it can always be replaced as none of the information contained on the card can be reverse engineered.
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