Fighting crime depends on technology. Modern technology such as biometric technologies, for example. Authentication processes using fingerprints or facial recognition instead of PIN or password – measurement methods that recognize characteristics directly on people. “Biometrics is penetrating more and more areas in consumer electronics, ie in normal use, but also in the area of official documents, think of the biometric passport, for example, the point is that we are of course always in a race with them Attackers and here in this high-tech center we want to be ahead of the attack, “says Arne Schönbohm, head of the Federal Office for Security and Information Technology, or BSI for short. Together with the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, the BSI is developing the latest biometric technology and presented it on Wednesday in Sankt Augustin. The more the methods are used, the more the risk of abuse increases. In the biometric evaluation center, however, a sensor technology was developed that can detect whether it is skin or another material. The 3-D-Finger project is working on creating a three-dimensional fingerprint. Deeper skin structures are also recorded, which makes counterfeiting more difficult. In addition, new 3D cameras are being examined for their suitability for verifying faces and, in particular, for detecting forgeries. Among other things, this is used for border control. “We in Germany are of course very interested, just like in the European Union, that we have a very high standard, that we can biometrically reliably identify who has been inside and who is actually the person behind it , that’s why it ultimately works here, because EU crime never sleeps and also sees this as one of the possible business models. ” There are already eGates in the evaluation center, as we know them from airports, which work with biometric and counterfeit detection technologies.