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Biometric tools in the province of Buenos Aires: Successful cases
“God stamped the hand of every man, that he might know
his own works”. Commissioner Alberto Pérez.
Papiloscopy Practice Manual
During the governorship of Daniel Scioli, the government of the Province of Buenos Aires
created through the Chief of the Ministerial Cabinet in charge of Mr. Alberto Perez (whose
dead father, Commissioner Alberto Perez made a valuable contribution to Biometrics with his
book Papiloscopy Practice Manual) the National Biometrics Office in order to implement and
promote new techniques and apply international standards in the field of biometrics across all
provincial agencies, permitting the dissemination of good practice in the recording of biometric
data, and with a view to creating and integrating the resultant biometric databases.
Biometrics being the study of methods and techniques for the unique recognition of each
human based on one or more intrinsic behavioural or physical characteristic, we considered the
use of biometric tools, and the resultant setting of province-wide standards for improving the
security of the information gathered, to be of the utmost importance.
In information technology (IT), biometric authentication refers to technology for measuring and
analyzing human physiological and behavioural characteristics for the purpose of authenticating
identity. Fingerprints, the iris, facial features, DNA, blood vessel patterns, and the geometry of
the palm of the hand are examples of physiological (or static) characteristics, while behavioural
(or dynamic) characteristics include one’s signature, gait and typing rhythm. The voice is
considered a mixture of physiological and behavioural characteristics, although all biometric
features share physical and behavioural aspects.
For example the technology used for fingerprint recognition has as its purpose the rapid and
precise identification of a single person using their fingerprint, certifying a person’s identity in a
unique and incontrovertible manner by means of an electronic device (which may be static or
portable) that captures the fingerprints, and a program that verifies the identity, whether on a
one to one or a one to many basis.
The primary objectives of the Provincial Biometrics Office are:
1 To put the Province of Buenos Aires at the forefront in the security, handling and safeguarding
of personal information.
2 To combine the personal details obtained from individuals in each of the province’s various
government departments.
3 To set standards for the application of biometric techniques to ensure information is secure.
4 To generate a biometric database as a central tool for the safeguarding of the identity of
each inhabitant of the province.
5 Together with the standardization of the recording of biometric details, to work towards the
unification of platforms among the databases of the different provincial jurisdictions.
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