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associated to the identity document, facial image and first and last names.
NAMES + NUM_IDENTITY + BIOMETRICS = IDENTITY
From the last step on, that citizen is associated to a unique identity in the universe of registers
of individuals that the Government has for identification purposes.
Then, going back to the query posed above, it can be said that we have to VERIFY the citizen’s
identity through the comparison of any of the biometric factors that the Government possess,
against those submitted at the moment of requiring this information, thus attaining the certainty
sought for.
At this point, it is necessary to go deeper into some definitions that are merely for information
purposes and substantially necessary for a correct interpretation of the statements, and based
on what Don Arturo Jauretche defined, our intention is that the language used be free of
“nonsense”.
When speaking about biometrics, it is about those unique and measurable identifying features
that an individual has. Fingerprints, iris conformation, face configuration, particular features that
are intrinsic to that individual. The other features, such as first and last names, are imposed by
the individual’s parents; the individual’s identity number is assigned by the State; but biometric
features belong to that individual since in the womb.
When speaking about registering an individual, also known as “enrolling”, it is when at the
moment of identification no identical record is found in all records, so those biometric records
are added to the existing ones.
When speaking about identity, within the biometric framework, it is referred to a bi-univocal
association or of a univocal correspondence (the first one refers to the other, and the latter
to the first one with no ambiguities and unequivocally) between an individual and his/her
biometric records, which are given (registered) after a verification that there is no one with
identical biometric patterns. In other words, and as an example, “this print belongs only to an
individual and only that individual has that print”.
When speaking about verifying the biometric identity, it is said that that individual is in the
records and the registered biometric particularities are compared against those that the
individual presents; if they match there is a positive verification.
Having explained this, it still has to be mentioned that there is no biometric method that is not
vulnerable to tricks or actions of human nature (e.g. diseases or accidents) or at least cheated
if usability and security conditions are not taken into account. We are not pretending to make
this text a manual for biometric identity theft but to show that biometrics is not a “silver bullet”
that is a solution in itself or that acts to the detriment of the other measures to be taken into
account, but it only acts according to what it is, a tool that facilitates, speeds up and ensures
an identity.
For this reason is that we actively participate in the elaboration, debates, proposals and votes in
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