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UK ID Trials: MP's Discomfort With Iris Scanner Technology

An MP who volunteered to take part in the UK ID card trials says the iris scanner used is uncomfortable and made his eyes water. Poor chap, you're probably thinking, but not exactly a tragedy. However, this isn't just a whinge. The water in his eyes actually stopped the scanner from working, and it seems long eyelashes and hard contact lenses could fox it too. . . .. An MP who volunteered to take part in the UK ID card trials says the iris scanner used is uncomfortable and made his eyes water. Poor chap, you're probably thinking, but not exactly a tragedy. However, this isn't just a whinge. The water in his eyes actually stopped the scanner from working, and it seems long eyelashes and hard contact lenses could fox it too. So we're going to have a system that is derailed by a few tears and fluttering eyelashes? Roland Sables, the man in charge of the trial, said that he was expecting a failure rate of about seven per cent. Most of these failures, he argued, would be caused by problems with camera positioning, although others "are due to eye malformations, watery eyes and long eyelashes in a small percentage [of cases]". Sables said that so far the iris scanner had failed to match people with their details in just four per cent of cases. Scale that up to the UK population and you've got nearly 2.5m people who won't be correctly identified. The link for this article located at TheRegister is no longer available. . A senator's encounter with the biometric face recognition system sheds light on user unease and practical challenges associated with digital identification technology.. Iris Scanning,Biometric Authentication,User Experience. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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