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customers’ identities using the new identity card and biometric card readers, thereby reducing
the risk of loss due to criminal acts.
Along with the use of the latest technology, the RIC will allow Brazilian citizens to be registered
following a fingerprint check in a unique nationwide database, ensuring that each individual
gets a unique number in the Civil Identity Register by which every Brazilian citizen, whether
born or naturalised, will be identified in their interactions with society and with governmental
and private organisations, thereby strengthening all of the services that require a citizen’s
identification. The tool adopted by Brazil for investigating fingerprints, and which will be used
for large-scale investigation in the RIC project, is AFIS, the Automated Fingerprint Identification
System, which is capable of rapid and accurate extraction of individual morphological
characteristics, called minutiae, which allow fingerprint impressions to be distinguished from
each other, giving each citizen an unmistakable separate identity. This is therefore the principal
tool in the implementation of the Civil Identity Register.
The Federal Police Department already has an operational AFIS installed in the National
Identification Institute and its twenty seven regional offices. The Institute’s AFIS has an interface,
entitled Inter-AFIS, which permits the exchange of information with other automated fingerprint
identification systems that have adopted INTERPOL’s ANSI/NIST-ITLI-2000 standard.
Another aspect of the Federal Police is its modern technological structure, which is capable
of implementing a system of communication and interoperability between the organisations
involved.
The Civil Identity Register was officially launched on 30 December 2010 by then President of
the Republic Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and the State Minister of Justice, Luiz Paulo Teles Ferreira
Barreto, with investment of almost 90 million reals provided by the Ministry of Justice, and with
the particular purpose of guaranteeing the fundamental rights of citizens.
During the launch ceremony, the Justice Minister, Luiz Paulo Teles Ferreira Barreto, pointed out
that the RIC card is one of the most modern identity cards in the world: “The RIC card is more
secure and more practical, since it incorporates various security features in a single document”.
Its adoption will deliver innumerable benefits for society by guaranteeing the uniqueness of
each citizen and their document using automated fingerprint identification. This measure will
strengthen public and private services that require the identification of the citizen, making an
effective contribution to the reduction of fraud against individuals, companies and government
bodies.
Every transition is a big challenge, and starting the RIC project demanded strong articulation and
a concentrated effort. In parallel with this, it was necessary to establish solid guidelines for its
development and credibility.
It should be recognised that in this process the choice of organisational and technological
standards was decisive in dictating the direction of the market and indeed the very evolution of
governmental applications of the technology. The implementation of a policy of modernisation
in the civil identification system, involving the adoption of modern methods, technology,
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