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... 172 Case Study: Known Traveller Digital Identity at Aéroport International Montreal–Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Montreal, Canada Summary To respond to the increasing demand for a more efficient and streamlined passenger process, the WEF and several airport and industry partners launched the KTDI program for the development of a trusted digital identity based on biometric technology. The goal of this initiative is to make it possible for all industry partners to use the digital identity securely and easily while protecting the passenger's privacy.
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... Case Study: Known Traveller Digital Identity at Aéroport International Montreal–Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Montreal, Canada 173   What biometric technique is used? ● Facial recognition ● 1:1 and 1:few matching of biometrics Where?
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... 174 Airport Biometrics: A Primer Enrollment/digital identity creation and verification ● During the pilot, a one-time enrollment in the KTDI program was achieved, as follows: – Airline invites a select group of passengers to participate – Passenger creates and certifies digital ID with appropriate official issuing authority: local government digital identity-issuing office hosted at Schiphol airport or the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Canada – Passenger downloads mobile phone application and creates KTDI profile – The local identity-issuing authority makes a photograph of the passenger with the passenger's capturing device in a controlled environment.
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... Case Study: Known Traveller Digital Identity at Aéroport International Montreal–Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Montreal, Canada 175   The airport's orchestration platform that supports KTDI can accept passenger data when shared via the app prior to departure or arrival. The orchestration platform creates a passenger data envelope (PDE)
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... 176 Airport Biometrics: A Primer airport/airline platform. The data remain with the passenger on the mobile device and are not centrally stored.
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... Case Study: Known Traveller Digital Identity at Aéroport International Montreal–Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Montreal, Canada 177   System Architecture Flow Diagram The flow diagram of this case study can be found in the Known Traveller Digital Identity at Aéroport International Montreal–Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Montreal, Canada, case study in Chapter 2. System Specifications – Digital ID and Self-Sovereign Identity Instead of simply replacing the hardcopy ID with a softcopy digital ID derivative or alternative, the concept uses verifiable claims (interactions)
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... 178 Airport Biometrics: A Primer the COVID-19 period is a key focus. The complete process allows passengers to only use their mobile device, relieving them of having to fumble with a passport and boarding pass.
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... Case Study: Known Traveller Digital Identity at Aéroport International Montreal–Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Montreal, Canada 179   entity would need to be created. Development of the application by Transport Canada or CBSA (with experience in application development)
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... 180 Airport Biometrics: A Primer hosting of the application on the passengers' mobile devices needs to be able to handle the data load as well as the interoperability and integration with multiple (new) airlines.

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