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Biometric Technology Application Manual Section 2 23
uments is limited, or a more recent enterprise.
Data Mining, References, and Background
Investigations
While general Internet searches to access information related
to individuals raises the specter of privacy invasion,
a focused and limited use to validate an identity claim for
biometric enrollment can be useful and non-invasive. An
individual seeking enrollment should be advised that a
reasonable attempt to verify data they provide to support
their identity claim may be made by various means,
including search of data on the Internet. Direct contact
with references and inquiries to validate historical and biographical
information supplied by the candidate for enrollment
should all be included in the basis for “informed
consent” requested of the individual. Careful consideration
must be given, however, to whether linkage of the
records in the biometric system to external “legal” records
is really required and, if so, to what purpose and extent.
All of the common methods briefly described herein to
validate identity prior to enrollment are, of course, more
practical in societies and national entities where documentation
of individual identity and maintenance of statistics
from birth and throughout life are available. Where
this is not the case, the requirement is considerably more
difficult. Any reasonable means that do exist (for instance,
religious, educational, or health records) should be used
as alternatives to routine identification documents. In
such cases, a more detailed background file on initial enrollment
should also be constructed to document the
limited nature of pre-enrollment validation while beginning
the process of establishing a strong identity record
for the future.
Version 2 – Summer 2008