ISLAMABAD, June 23: The Organization of Islamic Conference Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (Comstech) is launching an awareness campaign on “Biometrics: Identification Technology for a Secure World”.

Biometrics technology is increasingly being used to evolve methods to identify individuals using their specific physiological and behavioural characteristics such as fingerprints, iris, retina, face, wrist vein handwriting, hand geometry and voice patterns etc., especially for authentication purposes.

Comstech said it was organizing a seminar on Tuesday, sponsored by the Comstech-PTCL Frontier Technologies Research Centre.

Eminent professionals from Pakistan and US, including Prof Attaur Rahman, Comstech coordinator general Salman Ansari, Adviser to Minister for Information Technology Ali Kamal, LMK Resources vice president Shoeb Yunus, and NADRA chairman, will discuss the scope and utility of Biometrics applications in a diverse area of life.

With the level of security breaches and transaction frauds increasing and security fears reaching new heights, it has become obvious that current security methods are not enough. The demand for Biometrics technologies, designed to protect privacy, have become the foundation of an extensive array of highly secure identification and personal verification financial transactions and personal data privacy.

The use of Biometrics technologies has accelerated globally after 9/11.

Biometrics solutions are used in computer systems, military services, intelligence agencies, security organizations, law enforcement agencies, access through fire walls, networks security, physical access control to protect sensitive information, and health/medicine.