February 18, 2002
Scanning Tech a Blurry Picture
Scanning Tech a Blurry Picture
Iris-scanning and face-matching technologies don't work nearly as well as their manufacturers have claimed, the Department of Defense has discovered. King said that of the 270 persons checked by the Visionics system, it correctly recognized individuals a mere 51 percent of the time. The supposedly more reliable Iridian eye-scanners, meanwhile, correctly verified someone's identity just 94 percent of the time.
Posted by rshah at February 18, 2002 12:00 PM