After we wrote about the inaccuracy of facial recognition systems, we received such a detailed comment on it from David Moss that we asked if we could make it a blog entry. David, a former IT consultant, writes widely on the subject, most recently for The Guardian. Biometrics based on face recognition do not work. [...]
In an interview this weekend, Chancellor Alistair Darling referred to ID cards, saying there was probably no need for them because biometric passports, which carry the same information, would be sufficient. This has been taken by many as a sign that the project to get every Briton to have an ID card is likely to [...]
Last week, Manchester Evening News journalist Angela Epstein became the first British member of the public to possess an ID card. As one of the few journos to favour the card, the Home Office asked if she’d like to be first to test it out. “I’m so proud I could almost burst,” she wrote about [...]
Mary Wakefield in Saturday’s Independent picks up on the section in Complete and Utter Zebu about the uselessness of the unmanned biometric system controlling entry to the country which is being introduced as part of Britain’s “unbeatable ring of security”. The “live trial” at Manchester Airport saw so many people queried that the queues became [...]
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