Biographic Technologies
(Room Tampa Convention Center:Exhibit Room)
20 Sep 16
2:30 PM
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3:30 PM
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While Biographic identity has typically not been the focus of GIS, it is a complex area with broad-ranging use cases of interest to the government, and is well worth focused attention. Much like hard and soft biometrics, biographic identity attributes exist along a continuum from intrinsic (e.g. Date of Birth, Gender) to extrinsic (e.g. address, phone number). Unlike biometrics, biographic identity elements primarily exist in (often imperfect) textual form, thus presenting challenges of data hygiene and necessitating the ability to perform accurate approximate matching of identity attributes. This need has given rise to innovative technical solutions to address the various aspects of biographic identity.
This session will address the many use cases and technologies for biographic identity, including those more traditionally associated with GIS, such as law enforcement, watchlist search and maintenance, and intelligence analysis, and also use cases that may not immediately come to mind such as the application of identity information for US Census and electronic health record (EHR) matching. Improvements in this area support a single view of a patient across the healthcare system, thus enabling better patient care, prevent fraudulent healthcare claims, and aid in determination of eligibility for benefits distributions. Additional use cases that may be discussed involve both the offensive and defensive treatment of online biographic elements such as email, user names and passwords, which are used for access to social media and other online resources. This session will address this variety of use cases, which require making the maximum intelligent use of the entire spectrum of identity information and technologies available. We will discuss traditional biographic information, online biographic identity attributes, as well as the concept of "Non-ID ID", including the possibility of leveraging the blockchain as a decentralized identity store. Expected outcome is an understanding of the breadth of applicability of biographic identity technologies, including the current state of the practice and a consolidated view of the challenges that lie ahead, including areas in which technological solutions and research can be shared across problem domains.