iris recognition

The FBI is building what is being called the world's largest database of biometric data that will include face, fingerprint, iris and palm scans in order to identify and catch criminals/terrorists. But what's really interesting about this story from the Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima is that the FBI plans to offer a service to employers that will involve retaining the fingerprints of any employees on whom an employer has conducted a criminal background check.

There are few queues more annoying than the one at the end of a day's travelling. It is even more annoying when you are queuing to enter your own country. As a result, frequent travellers have been enrolling in the free biometric Iris Recognition Immigration Scheme (IRIS) to avoid lengthy immigration queues at UK airports.

The school district has installed a new security system that will check whether visitors to the schools are registered sex offenders. Called the Teacher-Parent Authorization Security System (T-PASS) With Sex Offender Lookup — put out by Eyemetric Identity Systems — the new system will track visitors and people checking students out of school, Superintendent Jerry North said Monday.

OTTAWA -- The 2002 film Minority Report depicts a society that keeps tabs on its citizens by swiftly scanning their irises when they exit subway cars or enter buildings. The same technology verifies the identity of those authorized to enter restricted areas.

At the time the Stephen Spielberg film was released, the biometric world it depicted still seemed far off. But in the five years since, systems that rely on biometric samples of fingerprints or iris and facial scans to establish identity have become so ubiquitous some suggest we're witnessing the birth of the biometric state.

MIDDLETON, Mass. — The iris has it — the key to your identity, that is.

And someday soon, sheriff departments in the state’s 14 counties could be using iris scans to find missing children and adults, with the Middleton Jail taking the lead in making what used to be the stuff of James Bond films a reality.

Like your fingerprints, patterns, swirls, lines and spots on the iris never change. A scan of the iris with a digital camera can be stored in a database for retrieval later, and then used to verify a child’s identity.

No-fly lists aren't the only way authorities in Canada and the United States are trying to deal with the threat of aviation terrorism.

Another strategy is the joint Canadian-U.S. NEXUS traveller program, which allows low-risk travellers to cross the border more easily -- as long as they're willing to submit to a background check and provide fingerprints and other personal data.

NEXUS air, highway and marine programs were consolidated last month into a single "trusted traveller" program. NEXUS, which started in 2002, now has more than 110,000 members in Canada and the U.S.

 

Sheriff Ken Roland announced today that the Miami County Sheriff's Office will introduce a new system that will identify and locate missing children and adults through the use of Iris Recognition Biometric Technology.

At a press conference to be held at the Miami County Sheriff's Office, 35 court Street in Peru, Sheriff Roland will officially launch The Children's Identification and Location Database (CHILD) Project. His office will be the second in Indiana to install the CHILD Project System.

GLENWOOD SPRINGS — You probably first saw it in science fiction or James Bond movies, a futuristic technology that didn’t actually exist in the real world. But, scanning someone’s eyes to identify them has become reality among some Colorado law enforcement agencies. The Garfield County Sheriff’s Department has used an iris scanner since 2004 to identify inmates as they are booked into the jail and to verify the right inmate is being released.