Iris Scan

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.

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.

EVERYBODY living in the United Kingdom, including foreigners, will be required to have their biometric details recorded under the government's identity card scheme, it emerged yesterday. John Reid, the Home Secretary, announced that all UK residents, whether or not they were British citizens, would be forced to have their irises scanned and their fingerprints taken for the national database.

The miSense trial at London's Heathrow Airport will use biometric fingerprint and iris scans to screen air passengers on selected Emirates and Cathay Pacific flights to and from Dubai and Hong Kong. The trial, which is voluntary, will run until the end of January at Terminal 3. To register for miSense, passengers must undergo an enrollment check at Heathrow where their passport is checked, identity verified and biometrics scanned. The fingerprint scanner (pictured) records prints for all 10 digits. A digital facial image is also taken, along with iris scans of both eyes (pictured). The whole process takes about five minutes and the biometric information is uploaded onto the chip of a miSense "membership" smart card. The card is activated 24 hours later, after further background checks to verify the identity of the person.