Message From PISI's Chairman
 

Dear Reader,

My name is Andrew J. Polcha, I am one of the founding members of PISI and co-inventor of the “Recoverable Biometric” solution as well as PISI's other privacy based technologies. My brother Mike and I have been very involved in the biometrics space for years. When talking about biometrics, I use the description of “fun house mirrors” and distorting biometric data as what we do. Our motive for developing these technologies;  “nobody was protecting the biometric”…

The concept of recoverability has yet to be implemented within any government policy. When examining current policies, there is mention of encryption and some validation authorities are applying encryption to fingerprint templates within databases. Is encryption enough? What can be encrypted can also be decrypted - then what do you do?

The biometrics market is moving very rapidly. Evidence of this is shown with the emergence of many of the low cost biometric devices targeting the consumer.  I pose this question - are you going to trust your entire bio-identity or at least that natural identifier to a $200.00 fingerprint reader attached to your computer keyboard? If it is biometric input devices such as cameras and scanners that substantiate identity; then it is only a camera or a scanner that is needed to steal an identity…  

The problem is much bigger. “Stolen Identities are not only a personal problem, when your biometric is stolen - how do you get that back?”, but it is the government's problem too! If a biometric of an individual is stolen, than that person can not be effectively enrolled biometrically again… All that would be need for this  to happen is one storage database holding biometric data to be breached or hacked. That security breach could compromise screening security at a boarder point or at an airport. If that is the case - what are we all doing?

I hope in reading this letter you realize that I am not professing that bio-identification is a bad thing. Before biometrics can safely be implemented within our daily lives considerations need to be taken and policies need to change so that biometric are safe and fulfill their purpose - identification. PERSONAL IDENTITY SOLUTIONS, INC. was created to make any and all biometric solutions safe for the consumer public. For myself and on behalf all the members of PISI, it is our belief (duty) to make the world better place for our children will grow up in.

                                                                       

 Andrew J. Polcha

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