BBC NEWS | Programmes | File on 4 | ID cards will give 'false' data
BBC NEWS | Programmes | File on 4 | ID cards will give 'false' data: The government's ID card system will give thousands of "false matches" when more than six million people are registered on its database, an academic has claimed.
Biometric data holding a person's unique physiological characteristics will be stored on a microchip in the cards.
But Professor John Daugman, said using fingerprints as a key biometric measure will cause major problems.
The Identity and Passport Service has denied Professor Daugman's claims.
Professor Daugman, of the University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, said using a biometric scan of the iris - the coloured part of the eye controlling the amount of light that gets through to the retina - would give better accuracy than a fingerprint.
Plans to include the iris scan in the ID card biometric were put on hold by the government last December.
A small scale system using iris identification is operated by immigration officials at Heathrow and other UK airports.
(Read Original Article - Via .)
Recent blog posts
- Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely
- Judges Approves $9.5 Million Facebook ‘Beacon’ Accord
- Hooking Up The Big Brother Machine... And Fighting It
- Court: State Can Dump Non-Sex Offenders Into Registry
- How Privacy Vanishes Online
- Undercover Feds on Social Networking Sites Raise Questions
- FBI Uses Fake Facebook Profiles To Spy On Suspects
- Lawrence Lessig: Citizens Unite
- Case Report – BCCA says aerial surveillance by telphoto zoom lens not a search
- Obama threatens to veto greater intelligence oversight