iris recognition for a variety of secure applications, ranging from
customs clearance and immigration to secure border control to speed up
travel time for passengers."
" ... the real power of Morton's system (now being sold to airports
and governments worldwide under the name "Boundless Security") is when
the cameras, themselves, are intelligent. The cameras can, for
example, be told to look for a particular face, a particular behavior,
a sound (gunfire?), or even to look for a unique biometric measure
like the iris of a criminal's eye. Iris patterns stabilize around the
first year of age and don't change again. Morton's system can
identify iris patterns through dark glasses or contact lenses and can
do so almost instantly for thousands of people passing through airport
metal detectors or subway turnstiles. Creepy, eh? Link together all
the cameras in a country and even Ted Kaczynski (or Saddam Hussein)
would have difficulty hiding for long."
The Eyes Have It
Iris Recognition Could Mean the End of Physical Privacy
By Robert X. Cringely
[url]www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030515.html[/url]
Now, my question is, do Canadians feel safer?
2tec ~ gets the picture