PASSENGER

The use of effective risk assessment methods to identify foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) in global travel is an important contribution to increasing security in Austria and the EU. The present project aims to achieve more effective methods of exchanging highly sensitive biometric data between authorities in an international context to combat organized crime and terrorism while maintaining the highest level of data protection and safeguarding against misuse.
The use of state-of-the-art encryption methods as well as inherent security and privacy by design approaches in IT architecture and processes are the top design principles. The project is researching new privacy biometric preserving matching methods as well as the use of responsible and controllable methods of artificial intelligence (AI) in this highly sensitive area of official use.
The project is being carried out in close coordination with international authorities such as the UN Organization for Counter Terrorism (OCT) in order to achieve a global impact of the project results and position Austria as a global technology leader in state-of-the-art digital privacy and security-by-design technologies and methods.