Millions of people around the world rely on humanitarian aid. One of the challenges when it comes to distributing aid is that resources are almost always scarce. Therefore, organizations want to ensure that people can only register once. CISPA-Faculty Dr. Wouter Lueks and his colleagues at EPFL in Lausanne recently developed a tool in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) that enables organizations to overcome this challenge by using biometric data safely.
Using biometrics securely to avoid multiple registrations in humanitarian aid
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