NewsMine — security — bigbrother — tech — Viewing Item

Iris scanning being at german airport { February 13 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5158973.html http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5158973.html Iris scanning to begin at German airport By Dinesh C. Sharma CNET News.com February 13, 2004, 11:05 AM PT A test of an iris-scanning system is set to begin Saturday at the Frankfurt, Germany, airport, as part of a project involving 18 European countries. Airline passengers will be required to stand in front of an identification device whose cameras will automatically capture images of their iris patterns, companies participating in the trial said Friday. The iris systems--seven of which have been installed at the airport--will then identify the passenger's iris and match that information with the passport data captured by a scanner. If successful, the iris system could replace conventional systems for checking identity at airport immigration counters. Initially, residents of European Union countries and Switzerland who fly frequently with Lufthansa will be able to take part in the trial at the main Frankfurt airport, after getting their iris data registered. Full-scale service will be launched after the six-month trial, according to Byometric Systems and Oki Electric Industry, companies implementing the project. Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, airlines and high-tech companies launched a number of high-profile security experiments. Many put into effect or looked into secondary security checks such as card readers and biometric devices, but civil libertarians and privacy advocates decry such experiments as invasive. "It must be guaranteed that the registered biometric characteristic can be matched absolutely correctly," Otto Schily, Germany's minister of the interior, said in a statement. "Iris recognition is currently considered to be the most secure biometric system." Byometric and Oki said the complexity and randomness of the eye's iris patterns make them more difficult to fake than other biometric patterns, such as fingerprints.

Airport eye scanners for members { December 1 2003 } Airport screeners may get xray vision Asia using electronic devices for purchasing { September 30 2007 } Britain tests car satellite control device { July 3 2005 } Britian fingerprint California tries tax by mile with car tracking { November 16 2004 } Carjacking tracked high tech { July 17 2003 } Chase introduces radio microchip payments { May 19 2005 } Clone born soon Consumer database { November 21 2002 } E big brother { April 18 2002 } Eye recognition { April 21 2003 } Fbi prepares vast database of biometrics { December 22 2007 } Finger prints { May 15 2002 } Fingerprint checks Fingerprint jeffco { October 2 2002 } Gene precrime Government tracks laser printer documents { November 22 2004 } Hi tech security { September 24 2002 } Iao [gif] IAO [jpg] Ibm asci purple { November 19 2002 } Ibm ascii purple 290m Ibm jumps on rfid bandwagon { September 16 2003 } Internet e dna Iris scanning airport Iris scanning being at german airport { February 13 2004 } LAPD studies facial recognition software { December 26 2004 } Laser star wars Library id Nasa denies { August 20 2002 } Nasa mind read National geospatial agency watching americans from space New jersey school institutes iris scanning New life weapon { November 21 2002 } Nima spy satellite { December 15 2002 } Nonlethal weapons People zapper { November 3 2002 } Police use iris scan to track kids Radio tag track consumers products Retailers experiment with biometric payment { June 9 2005 } Satellite tracking cars { June 8 2003 } Scan eyes { November 14 2002 } Sleeping weapons Space images tracking you { May 18 2003 } Speed cameras { September 22 2002 } Supermarket chain uses fingerprinting { March 4 2004 } Surveillance identifies walking style { May 19 2003 } Tampa scraps facial recognition Thumb print { July 23 2002 } Toxic sensors newyork Files Listed: 51

Correction/submissions

CIA FOIA Archive

National Security Archives

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information, go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purpose of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.