Children in a classroom—without identity, they can't access their rights.

Unique legal identity

Giving access to a legal identity for all from birth

Foundational identity
Public Security
Civil identity

Worldwide, 850 million people lack identity proof, preventing access to basic rights like healthcare, education, and voting. This creates huge barriers for individuals and countries as they seek to prosper and grow. Establishing a foundational identity is crucial to driving change.

Biometrics: a key enabler ensuring identity for everyone

2030

target set by United Nations SDG 16.9 to get an identity for all from birth

Biometric modalities with Thales’ identification algorithms: fingerprint, face, iris

years of biometric expertise

Legal identity: A pillar for sustainable development and inclusion

Thales helps governments deploy secure legal identity infrastructure, ensuring inclusion from birth per SDG 16.9.

Inclusion

Biometrics offer a universal, reliable and fast way to identify individuals. With 30 years of experience and top-tier technology, Thales leverages biometrics to provide inclusive population registration.
Protection

Protecting legal identities from fraud and misuse is essential.
As a cybersecurity expert, Thales embeds privacy by design in our solutions to safeguard your most personal asset – your identity – with the highest level of precision. 
Empowerment

Where citizens can prove their identity, populations are empowered. From streamlining public services to simplifying daily transactions, we're ensuring that your identity isn't just a badge but a key – unlocking doors to myriad of possibilities.

Transforming Identity Infrastructure for Governments

Thales supports governments in their digital identity transformation with advanced technology and products, ensuring secure legal identity while combining performance, interoperability and security.

Our solutions include all modules of an identity management system, from enrollment and automated biometric identification (ABIS) to digital or physical identity credential issuance. Each of these building blocks uses standardized interfaces (APIs) defined by OSIA, ensuring full interoperability.

With customer-centric services built from experience and a strong ecosystem of local partners, Thales assists governments in operating and maintaining their system. Because implementing a modern infrastructure is important, but ensuring its adoption and long-term sustainability is even more critical.

From biometric population registration to digital identity usage, our nationwide identity solutions pave the way to build a secure population registry. As a trusted source of identity, this registry becomes a cornerstone of digital public infrastructure – enabling citizens to securely access essential public services.

Key benefits | Discover Thales' Secure and Interoperable Legal Identity Solutions

As identity orchestrator, Thales IDMS verifies and approves citizens application requests and manages identity credential lifecycle. Its modular architecture is based on the OSIA open standard – recognised by ITU, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, as an official international standard.

Biometrics ensure one person corresponds to one identity. Thales' high-performance multimodal biometric system prevents identity duplication, ensuring a trusted population register. With advanced algorithms, it supports identity verification, enhances identity management, prevents fraud and aligns with Sustainable Development Goal 16.9.

A secure legal identity is key for public and private services. Thales digital identity solutions offer access to a wide range of use cases including authentication, digital signature, and attribute sharing. So governments can leverage state-issued identity to streamline their administration processes while improving communication with their citizens in an increasingly digital world.

Integrated with digital Civil Registry and Vital Statistics system (CRVS), Thales’ foundational identity solution assigns a Unique ID number (UIN) to each citizen from birth. This UIN links the state-issued ID to functional identity systems such as taxation, healthcare, and education. Giving an identity for all and from birth is aligned with Target 16.9 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.