Singapore will be the first country to use facial verification technology for its National Identity Scheme. The verification software can verify the individual and also tell if the person is present or not.
According to Andrew Bud, founder and chief executive of iProov, the UK company that is providing the technology, “You have to make sure that the person is genuinely present when they authenticate, that you’re not looking at a photograph or a video or a replayed recording or a deepfake.”
“This is the first time that cloud-based face verification has been used to secure the identity of people who are using a national digital identity scheme.”
The technology will be integrated with the country’s digital identity scheme SingPass and allows access to government services. It has been trialled with a bank and is now being rolled out nationwide.
The implementation of this programme is part of the government’s process of eliminating the need for ID cards by 2022.
