Automated Facial Recognition System for Licence Renewal

Running head: AUTOMATED FACIAL RECOGNITION AUTHENTICATION
Automated Facial Recognition Authentication
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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................2
Possible Benefits and Problems of AFRA system for Licence Renewal:..................................3
Implications for an Individual's Privacy while using AFRA for Applying or Renewing
Licences:....................................................................................................................................4
Ethical and Privacy Implications of the State Police's Proposed use of AFRA:........................6
Personal Implications of the AFRA Proposals:.........................................................................8
Conclusion:................................................................................................................................9
References:...............................................................................................................................10

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Introduction:
The facial recognition is a typical type of biometric software application which is
capable of unique identification or verification of a specific person (Amos, Ludwiczuk &
Satyanarayanan, 2016). For this, facial recognition software analyses the pattern of the
individual person’s face and compare it with the existing data stored by the software. If the
gathered data matches with any of the random stored data in the software then the verification
or the authentication process gets completed and that individual person is identified by the
software. This type of system mainly used for the security related reasons, with that this type
of system is also used for various of other uses (AbdAlmageed et al., 2016). In the current
situation this type of authentication process has so much of attention and it has the
potentiality to be used in the various of application that are related with the law enforcements
and other sectors.
The process of facial recognition authentication has potential great future. Users will
be able to access their accounts and can do any type of transaction by just by showing their
face. This type of software uses facial data points and the next generation liveness detection
for accurate authentication of the users.
In this section a state government has decided to implement automated facial
recognition authentication so that user authentication and the identification can be enhanced
for various types of state level services. But the government yet to decide full implementation
of the automated facial recognition authentication (AFRA) system. For this reason, in this
document implication of the automated facial recognition authentication or the AFRA system
will be discussed. In this aspect potential issues and the benefits of the AFRA system will be
discussed. With the potential issues and benefits, its effect on the security and privacy of the
individuals will be discussed who will be using this system.

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Possible Benefits and Problems of AFRA system for Licence Renewal:
Getting licences for something is actually one of the major services that a state
government provides. This licence can be a driving licence or can be a firearm licence. In the
current situation to get a licence an user need to provide various types of documents and
through the manual process applicant individuals are identified who are applied for the new
licences or renewal of new licences (Nordbakke, Sagberg & Gregersen, 2016). While the
automated facial recognition authentication or the AFRA is implemented in this case for the
authentication and verification of the users there can be various of potential benefits and
problems regarding this. In the following section these benefits and the problems are
discussed.
Benefits: If the automated facial recognition authentication is implement in this case for the
authentication and the verification purpose then the main benefit which will be gained in this
case is the “One User, One Licence.” This term is actually holding a great importance. While
the traditional type of licencing procedures are followed, in many of the cases it has been
seen that one user is holding multiple of licences using different of names. As there are
duplicate licences, the users of these licences can is use these for any type of fraud related
activates (Automated facial recognition can benefit society – if we support its development
properly - IFSEC Global | Security and Fire News and Resources, 2019). By those duplicate
licences the users can easily open new bank accounts and can even boards some domestic
flights fraudulently. This type of fraud related issues become more dangerous in the firearm
cases. Thus this types of fraudulent cases need to be stopped and for stopping these the
AFRA system can be very much effective (Time for an about-face? Flaws in facial
recognition plan, 2019). This automated facial recognition authentication system is capable of
stopping the duplicity of the licences as it completely eliminates the paper based processes
(Carter, 2018). Whenever any individual goes to apply for the new licences or renew of the