Digital identity and biometric technologies streamline passenger processing, enabling secure, contactless verification at airports through features like facial recognition and fingerprints. IATA’s Digital Identity and Biometrics Library explains current identity forms in travel, details trusted digital identity creation, and highlights privacy and data protection requirements.
The library provides industry stakeholders with essential knowledge of digital identity and biometrics, emphasizing privacy and trust-building processes.
The Digital Identity and Biometrics Library contains the following guidance:
- Digital Identity and Biometrics Fundamentals Handbook
- Guidance Material for the Implementation of One ID
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What’s inside the Digital Identity and Biometrics Library?
Digital Identity and Biometrics Fundamentals Handbook
The Digital Identity and Biometrics Fundamentals Handbook explains how identity is used in air travel today and outlines pathways to creating a trusted, privacy‑respecting digital identity for passenger identification. It introduces the One ID concept and passenger journey, explores digital identity and decentralized approaches such as self‑sovereign identity, and describes relevant IATA standards for contactless and biometric travel. The handbook also addresses privacy and data protection requirements, the supporting technologies and ecosystem principles behind One ID, and the trust frameworks needed to ensure secure, interoperable, and verifiable identity solutions across the travel ecosystem.
Guidance Material for the Implementation of One ID
This Guidance Material provides practical direction for implementing One ID‑compliant processes and systems, with a focus on the issuance, presentation, and verification of Verifiable Credentials (VCs) to support digitalized admissibility and contactless travel. It describes key use cases and end‑to‑end processes, followed by detailed implementation guidance for each activity. The document is intended for airlines, airports, and solution providers involved in planning, designing, deploying, and operating One ID solutions, and is particularly relevant to business sponsors defining digital identity strategies, architects designing target models, and technical leads and engineers responsible for implementation.