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Greetings
Greeting by the Executive Director of JAISA
Barcodes, RFID, and biometrics are the three principal automatic identification technologies. In particular, biometrics, that is said to be the ultimate personal identification technology, is positioned as a foundation technology that supports the security and reliability of both economic and social life. In fact it would not be an exaggeration to state that biometrics now attracts more attention and is expected to provide us with greater future benefits than any other current technology.
The JAISA merged with the Biometrics Security Consortium (BSC) in July 2006, started the operation of the JAISA BSC Committee, and finalized its operation organization,. Through this new organization, we are undertaking a variety of projects beginning with international standardization that is the activity most essential to the development and popularization of biometrics technology, and including survey research on social problems related to maintaining the safe operation of biometrics systems according to its characteristics, and the protection of personal information.
Member corporations of the JAISA BSC Committee can apply advanced information to their own business activities by participating actively in these projects.
To popularize biometrics, it is vital to deepen understanding of biometrics among users and all others concerned with the field.
Prepared to achieve this goal, this web site provides its member corporations with information such as the achievements of the activities of the JAISA BSC Committee and enables many users to obtain information about biometrics as easily as possible.We will take steps to improve this web site in the future, and look forward to you providing users with your frank opinions about its contents.
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May 2007
Ohki Katsuo
Executive Director
Japan Automatic Identification Systems Association |
Greeting by the Chairman of the BSC Committee
At the dawning of the twenty-first century, lively activities centered in the U.S.A began in an effort to achieve international standardization of biometrics technology. In January 2003, SC37 started up in Japan in response to ISO/ITC international standardization. With the spread of biometrics technology and improvement of international competitiveness under these circumstances as its major goal, the Biometrics Security Consortium, the BSC, was established in Japan in June 2003, as a voluntary organization with the support of related government ministries and agencies and the industrial world
The movement of a wide range of information and of people is becoming increasingly global, and “ubiquitous” has become an extremely familiar word, but the feeling of tension concerning terrorist attacks triggered on September 11, 2001 has not abated and, in our immediate surroundings, we face the challenge of ensuring that our children can attend school in safety.
When the BSC was formed, it was intended to conduct the following three activities.
(1) Creating new markets such as homeland security, ubiquitous computing security, and so on.
(2) Contributing to international standardization
(3) Clarifying user accountability through the study of privacy guidelines concerning personal information
JAISA BSC Committee
The achievements of the first three years of its activities went beyond technological issues to include law and social ethics, or in other words, the perspectives of the developer and the perspective of the user, and in November 2006, Ohmsha published the Biometrics Security Handbook.
The appearance of biometrics technology in human life is eagerly anticipated by industry, as identifying people or identifying specified people is steadily growing in importance as a way to ensure safe and secure urban environments and to internally control corporations. So in July 2006, the BSC advanced beyond its initial status as a voluntary body to resume operation as an organization within the Japan Automatic Identification Systems Association. The other activities of the JAISA are in the barcode and IC tag fields, and biometrics that is linked to these product groups in important ways, is counted on to grow further as part of the JAISA. The basic scope of the activities of the BSC is unchanged, but it now plays a more specific role as the body responsible for contacts with the industrial world. Its policies include forming links with the U.S. Biometrics Consortium, The Asia Biometrics Consortium in Asia, and the European Biometrics Forum in Europe, playing a strategic role in industry in international standardization such as ISO/IEC, JTC1/SC37 and so on, and participating actively in measures to deal with common industry challenges such as privacy and fragility of biometrics and forming organizations necessary for such measures by, for example, offering proposals to concerned government bureaus and agencies.
We are counting on industry making skilful use of the BSC to expand business and to offer the national government proposals for laws, organizations, etc. that must be provided.
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May 2007
Seto Yoichi
Chairman of BSC |
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