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Biometrics tools for social and digital inclusion
Introduction
The present work aims at showing the experience gained in the last 7 years on the biometric
field through diverse projects implemented by the National Government and to present the
new action plans for the next 5 years, understanding the use of biometric tools as an integral
process that demands commitment and responsibility in the application of the model by
different actors of society.
For this purpose, different issues will be described as social indicators of the work that the
Argentine Government is carrying out in relation to the “2011 -2016. Biometrics: a key tool for
social and digital inclusion” program.
Current situation
To start dealing with this issue, it is necessary to go back to the past. As of 2005, the National
Government promoted the adoption of international standards in biometrics to allow sharing
information among agencies competent on this issue as well as between provincial governments
and the Nation. Likewise, it fostered the implementation of equipment with the biometric
quality certifications necessary to obtain the raw material to ensure and guard citizen identity.
The adoption of ANSI-NIST type standards for the transmission of biometric data for
identification was a step studied and assimilated considering the benefits that this type of
communication provided in systems interoperability. Law 17.671 for “Identification, Registration
and Classification of National Human Potential” in its chapter II, Section I, Art. 7 considers the
record of biometric patterns but not the means to transmit or guard them, defining only their
classification in the following manner “at least patronymic, numerical and dactyloscopic cards
will be kept in compliance with the Argentine Vucetich system or another that in the future the
technical evolution might consider”. This allows the constant and necessary evolution of the
systems for keeping, classifying, comparing and recording biometric data to optimize processes
and procedures in order to provide an identity and, to issue the National Identity Documents. 1
Also, the adoption of these standards enables the inter-consultation with other Agencies
(provincial and foreign) to support national and international public security policies.
These are based on the accurate identification of individuals; and it is worth stressing that they
are mandatory for the constitution of a Nation as they allow defending individual identification.
They are an essential instrument against identity theft, and they contribute in the prevention
and fight against crime, the optimization of boarder registration systems, the authentication in
commercial transactions and the exercise of social and electoral rights, among others.
Then, the identification and security policies, for being a central axis in government management,
enabled the application of biometric tools to the projects that require identity identification by
1 http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/25000-29999/28130/texact.htm
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