Iris scanning

Harmon Seaver hseaver at cybershamanix.com
Wed May 7 18:19:44 PDT 2003


On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:04:34AM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
> >
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3003571.stm
> 
> 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...


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