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Public Acceptance of Advanced Identity Documents

Improving the security of identities is currently high on the political agenda. Technological developments have made it possible to integrate advanced biometric features such as facial information, fingerprints, and iris scans directly into identity documents; a large majority of these efforts relate to passports and identity cards. At the same time, other documents, such as breeder documents or birth certificates, are commonly being falsified or misused due to missing security features and may allow for legitimate identity documents to be obtained under fraudulent pretenses. The ongoing research is primarily exploratory, proposing how identity documents may be improved without compromising social acceptance of the technology. An integrated view that combines privacy, ethics, and societal literature with the unified theory of technology use and acceptance is used. Initial data has been gathered from nine countries and preliminary results indicate that there is a need to improve the security of birth certificates through the use of things such as biometric security features. Another feasible solution is to issue identity cards from birth rather than issuing a birth certificate. The process for issuing identity cards is already standardized and the technology behind them is more secure. Also, increasingly, they are already equipped with electronic functions, such as authentication, which is needed to access public and private electronic services.