Face recognition systems excessively inaccurate
 

Interesting article here on the excessive inaccuracy of face recognition systems. I guess it's back to the drawing board!

Of note in this article:
"Camera technology designed to spot potential terrorists by their facial characteristics at airports failed its first major test, a report from the airport that tested the technology shows.

Last year, two separate face-recognition systems at Boston's Logan Airport failed 96 times to detect volunteers who played potential terrorists as they passed security checkpoints during a three-month test period, the airport's analysis says. The systems correctly detected them 153 times.

The airport's report calls the rate of inaccuracy "excessive." The report was completed in July 2002 but not made public. The American Civil Liberties Union obtained a copy last month through a Freedom of Information Act request."

Here's a link to the article:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D5FD347C5

Thanks for the post. I get berated in some corners for telling people that most biometrics we are considering using are going to fail due to certain facts about cosmetic alterability at the very least. Secondarily, unless we enter and track biometric information from birth and match it with a given identity and run a query through whole databases of individuals from beginning to end there will be those who can go underground on some identity and appear above ground on another since most biometric database screens are not routinely designed to run through the database to make sure that the biometric in question is unique and does not appear more than once in the given databases. One biometric identifier, multiple identities.