ID card spin
More rubbish from the government. The tests they have been running over the last few months appear to have revealed all sorts of faults - ID trials reveal scan problems.
Facial scans worked for 69% of the "quota" group and 48% of disabled volunteers and fingerprints worked for 81% of "quota" group and 80% of disabled people. What use is a system that at best is only correct 81% of the time? I'd take those odds is I were a terrorist intent on destroying society. Fortunately the minister responsible, Tony McNulty, reassures us that "the trials were designed to discover how people found the scanning process, not test the technology".
So that's all right then.
Facial scans worked for 69% of the "quota" group and 48% of disabled volunteers and fingerprints worked for 81% of "quota" group and 80% of disabled people. What use is a system that at best is only correct 81% of the time? I'd take those odds is I were a terrorist intent on destroying society. Fortunately the minister responsible, Tony McNulty, reassures us that "the trials were designed to discover how people found the scanning process, not test the technology".
So that's all right then.
posted by phylos @ 09:20
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I once had a visit to Securicor to learn about their entry card systems and was told that they more or less have the technology in place now! The cards will cost very little but the readers are what mount up.
I was also told how you could put readers on ever train station to keep a log of where and when people travel. OR readers and a simple GPS system could do the same for buses!
Scared anyone?
Well how about the Iris scans that have been mention ed? They guy from Securicor nearly wet himself before asking "Do you know the long term effects of repeatedly shining Infra-Red light into the Iris?" No I don't, and I don't want to find out when it's too late!
Blunkett wants us all to live in darkness - he's a bitter man
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