40. Biometrics enable secure identification
and offer intelligent insight.
The future of biometrics depends on integration.
Editor's Notes
I’m Skooks Pong, self-taught engineer
I love tinkering and solving problems
I’ve been at Synapse, building engineering teams that specialize in developing new devices & experiences
You may have seen some, like FuelBand
A device designed to motivate you
Instead of a device, I’d like to talk about a better quality of life enabled by biometrics
I’m really excited about the future of biometrics, de-siloing information and the seamless interface they offer between the physical and digital world.
Biometrics around for awhile
What are biometrics, exactly?
At their most basic: Biometrics quantify some piece of us.
They offer identity AND insight
Humans have been looking for ways to identify each other since the dawn of civilization
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30,000 yrs cavemen signed paintings with handprints
Last year Apple released iPhone 5s w Touch ID
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So humans have looked for ways to identify each other for a while
So humans have looked for ways to identify each other for a while
Now our devices are starting to do this for us
Digitally encoding our characteristics
Why are we doing this?
Internet changing way we design experiences
15 years ago, hardware was hardware
Now it’s connected to internet
Smartphones learning about us
We’ve offloaded day-to-day tasks to technology - no paper map
Don’t want to memorize numbers, want to connect with friends
Technology is concealing the transaction layer, removing burden from user
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The next major leap in improving our quality of life depends on integrating the three silos that identify you
The next major leap in improving our quality of life depends on integrating the three silos that identify you
A physical token capable of combining:
Biometrics, the measurement of your distinct characteristics with
Knowledge, the digital accounts that currently contain data about you
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Biometrics: unique characteristics
Consider all the people you see throughout the day
Walking through your neighborhood, how do you determine whether you recognize someone
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Using senses to analyze their features
Using senses to analyze their features
If you recognize enough features, you can positively identify someone
Don’t need to think, it just happens
We use the senses we are born with
How do we identify people we don’t know?
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Consider entering an unfamiliar bar
Consider entering an unfamiliar bar
We use ID’s (tokens) to verify identity
Anti-counterfeit
Includes key biometric information
Combine these and identity is verified
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Includes key biometric information
Includes key biometric information
Combine these and identity is verified
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Go to Deli
Token: physical possession
Keys
Passport
License
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Knowledge: digital accounts
Go to Deli
Debit card is token
Add knowledge requirement of PIN
Sales person asks to see ID to biometrically verify me
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By layering the tools - biometrics, knowledge, and token - we enhance security
Knowledge: digital accounts
Username
Password
PIN
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Consider all the people you see throughout the day
Have you ever misidentified a friend?
Thought you recognized an identifiable feature of theirs, or article of clothing
You run up to say hi
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But when they turn around, you realize you’ve never seen them before!
But when they turn around, you realize you’ve never seen them before!
There is weakness in single points of ID.
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We are a collection of lots of recognizable pieces
Current paradigm is username / password
Using knowledge to authenticate you
And it’s worked for a while
But it doesn’t scale, has become a burden
We know single points of data don’t work
Add security questions, log IP addresses
Still not good representation of YOU!
Google Authenticator seeks to add a second factor, requiring physical possession
Nymi too, leveraging one of your biometrics
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You are not defined by body shape or favorite ball cap
“Internet-first” modality
Computer has become network of devices and sensors
Experiences designed with digitalization and connectedness in mind
Need better method of communicating to digital layer that we are each a unique human -- personalize interactions
Need to achieve same completenes
Need richer integrated data sets
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Smartphone=most personal computer ever built
Smartphone=most personal computer ever built
Capable of piecing together data to make our digital identity
Allows us to participate in digital experiences
Smartphone becomes smart token
Why smartphone?
Ubiquitous -- don’t leave home without it / extension of self
Smart -- learns & integrates data
Token -- physical possession
Smartphone is physical embodiment of our digital personas
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For the smartphone to learn us, it needs to measure us through all available inputs
For the smartphone to learn us, it needs to measure us through all available inputs
physiologic, behaviometric, and vitals
Allowing intimate knowledge = more identification and insight
Being able to identify you ensures your privacy and security
And understanding you enables insight
How does personal computer learn these things from you?
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Like you, the smartphone is born with senses
Like you, the smartphone is born with senses
It encodes the physical world into data it can process and interpret
Technology learns our unique physiologic, behavioral traits
Location
Keystroke dynamics
Fingerprint scanners
Voice and face recognition
Smart token can leverage additional sensors it wasn’t born with, as well
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Magic of wireless technology, connecting additional sensors, allowing further encoding of our physical environment
Magic of wireless technology, connecting additional sensors, allowing further encoding of our physical environment
This can offer more insight into
air quality
mood
hydration
sleeping patterns
temperature
heart rate
perspiration
weight
blood pressure
These sensors become new inputs
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Your device holds more info on you than any piece of technology before it
Your device holds more info on you than any piece of technology before it
Online accounts
contacts & birthdates
location patterns
purchase habits
These are all pieces of your digital puzzle
Exist in silos now
On their own they don’t offer a very complete picture
But it’s something our smartphones are getting closer to everyday
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Finally we have a platform to connect the dots
Finally we have a platform to connect the dots
The smart token can integrate your biometrics data and digital accounts to complete the picture through intelligent processing
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Security concern: “Digital completeness”
Security concern: “Digital completeness”
How can we address security concerns?
30% use PIN or lock combo on your phone to protect data
Friction
Biometrics can secure phones (lower friction)
Instead, consider it a way to learn your touch
It gains intelligence
You are thousands of data points that collectively reflect you
More knowledge phone learns = better recognition
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More phone learning = more security
More phone learning = more security
Think: You are they key
You are authenticated by being yourself
As it knows you, it too will learn the un-you
Over time, this will better differentiate between others, and restrict access
If my phone knows all my idiosyncrasies, it becomes nearly impossible to replicate my digital persona
My phone becomes a beautiful brick
I am the key
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Great news for privacy advocates!
Great news for privacy advocates!
Shift away from cloud databases where data has been hacked, and will be again
We maintain ownership of all our information on our smart token
We communicate our identification baseline
This personal hardware becomes a new digital biometric
A digital extension -- A sixth sense
Allows to move beyond something arbitrary like a PIN, password, even fingerprint
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Imagine reducing your payment methods, bus pass, keys, identification tools, coupons into smart token
Imagine reducing your payment methods, bus pass, keys, identification tools, coupons into smart token
Eliminate identity theft and fraud
Possession of card alone!
But with a smart token, they’d need…
Our team dreamt up ways this smart token could enable frictionless experience throughout your day
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Consider another example: Movie
You must take into account several variables
What’s playing where
What films have already been seen
Preferences
Jack loves violent action
Suzie prefers raunchy comedy
Jerry enjoys family films
Weigh the variables, find an option
Ends up being taxing
How many of data points do our phones already know
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What your phone already knows:
Phone knows:
Time
Location
Can ask services to list films playing nearby in customizable time frame
Location patterns of theaters you travel to most
Rewards program you have at particular chain
What is in your calendar
With context
Knows which films you’ve already seen
Purchase history
Genres, directors, actors you enjoy
Phones can cross-reference
When devices aware of you, your schedule, your preferences, they’re more useful
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Instead of setting an alarm, maybe bed monitors sleep cycle
Fitness gets a lot of attention
Underscored by influx of wearables
Obvious area for biometrics
Technology will get better at understanding us personally
Continue to add wearable technology to our bodies, we’ll more accurately monitor our biometrics
Insightful experiences that motivate us
Network of sensors is your personal trainer
Mark’s tried most of the fitness devices out there [LEAD INTO VIDEO RUN]
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Smart shoes, socks, and clothing
Why is fitness important? Why are we talking about it?
Exercise is preventative,
Doctor always asks
You have total control over - more we can empower..
There are other areas of health that can benefit from this as well.
Health should be user empowered, more user control
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What causes asthma attacks
What causes asthma attacks - Ryan
Propellor Health
Main idea = generate data from our surroundings without taxing the user
No behavior change!
Kept it familiar
Add feature that triggers a data collection process
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Inhaler → bluetooth → mobile phone → app
Inhaler → bluetooth → mobile phone → app
Can see time of day, location, weather, elevation → more complete picture of what is causing the attacks
We need to continue adding sensors to health devices to create more complete digital profile.
Internet has empowered us to take control of health, but it’s not a good user experience
So many databases
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Wouldn’t it be nice if our devices, using biometrics, could leverage all that context and knowledge?
Wouldn’t it be nice if our devices, using biometrics, could leverage all that context and knowledge?
These online tools are a wealth of information
But need to be personalized
Medscape
Let’s you monitor drug conflicts
What could we do with smart token monitoring us all hours of day -- diet, exercise, Rx
More data = less cross-checking/fetching of info
And expose data, with permission, to doctor
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Doctor has more insight
Doctor has more insight
Can see log of diet, exercise, prescriptions
Body worn sensors filling gaps in our data picture
Google contact lens monitors glucose
Awareness is great, but it can enable a much larger experience!
Like inhaler, the contact lens should trigger an event
Info passed to the processor, smart token
Knows what you need to eat, dietary restrictions, location, preferences, mood, even who you’re with
Can recommend a venue that satisfies all criteria [VIDEO LEAD IN]
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Once you arrive, you could be greeted and handed a menu
Don’t have to feel guilty about what you ordered
Your diet is now a living thing that works with you to achieve your goals
What if we added sensors that monitor blood-alcohol levels, or drowsiness?
Artificial intelligence takes away your keys
Can improve on the way drug dosage and ingestion intervals are managed
Can shift to a system that monitors us, administers drugs precisely as needed.
How do we keep people out of the hospital?
Biometric monitoring
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Continue patient monitoring when leaving hospital
Continue patient monitoring when leaving hospital
Tattooable sensors
See more vital monitoring technology: smartphone connected heart rate, blood pressure, glucose, temperature monitoring
Doctors alerted to changes when we leave, recommend feedback immediately
Biometrics enables interactive post accute care
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Why stop there?
Why stop there?
We’ll continue moving sensors inside of us.
Already have Pacemakers on our hearts
Soon we’ll have robots in our blood streams
A network of sensors that monitors our conditions constantly
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We will continue to move technology closer to ourselves until we reach the point of true singularity
We will continue to move technology closer to ourselves until we reach the point of true singularity
We are seeing biohacking and biointegration
Input/Output methods with our bodies via nerve endings
Future where we have total control
Systems born with v. systems we add?
Is altering or adding to the body really that different?
Can we add functions to our living systems to be more compatible with technology?
But That’s a long way off
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First, we must break the current silo paradigm
First, we must break the current silo paradigm
Starts with integrating data from our growing network of sensors
And adding human approach to the data
To create complete digital representations of ourselves
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Biometrics will become the way our devices measure, identify, understand and provide contextually aware insight into our lives
Biometrics will become the way our devices measure, identify, understand and provide contextually aware insight into our lives
The future of biometrics isn’t 1984, or Terminator or Minority Report.
Our personal devices - systems we do control - will learn and measure us, taking the shape of ourselves - digitally.
Digital representation can communicate our existence and identity to the environment, seamlessly meshing the physical and digital worlds
The future of biometrics depends on integration
Breaking the silos is what makes this all possible.
Recognize we are stuck in a lock and key, username / password paradigm
Lets break the paradigm and shift to using this unique digital….??
Better security and more insight
With my uniqueness as the key, I can be comfortable with the notion that our phones are going to contain a digital representation of ourselves.
Enabling a sixth sense within us
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