Fighting identity theft with advances in fingerprint recognition
Dick Mathekga · 2015
Identity can be reliably verified by comparing the biometric of a person claiming an identity, to a biometric stored against the claimed identity in a trusted database. A trusted database, when using fingerprints as a biometric, is that of the Department of Home Affairs and it can be used as a basis for creating other trusted databases; by only entering fingerprints and identifying information of people whose identities can be confirmed using the department’s fingerprint database. Therefore, companies affected by fraud resulting from identity theft can procure their own biometric recognition systems for use to confirm client identities; creating a trusted database.