On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:04:34AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
One thing the article said was: > The report found that iris recognition did better than most > but one manufacturer's claim of a 0.5% false identification rate > ballooned to 6% during the DOD tests.
> With 13 million people currently on the FBI's watch list, > any large scale biometric system could mean millions of people > being detained when crossing borders.
While the point they're trying to make is about false positives, the THIRTEEN MILLION PEOPLE ON THE FBI WATCH LIST just kind of slides by. That's equal to 5% of the US population, on Federal watch lists. (Yes, obviously some of those are foreigners, but then half the US population are young enough that hopefully almost none of them attract Federal attention...) What an outrage!
Yes, I noticed that. I was wondering (hoping, actually) that a large portion of those were outside the US, but even so... -- Harmon Seaver CyberShamanix http://www.cybershamanix.com