Hi-tech equipment could misidentify one in 1,000 people, say experts<\/p>\n
By Marie Woolf, Francis Elliott and Sophie Goodchild
\nThe Indpeendent on Sunday, 16 October 2005<\/p>\n
http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article320003.ece<\/a><\/p>\n One in 1,000 people could be inaccurately identified by the hi-tech scans The Government is planning to use face, iris and fingerprint scans to identify Internal reports for the Government warned that manual labourers whose Government trials have found that the biometrics of black, elderly and Fingerprint systems can make errors in the identification of one in 100,000 Qinetiq, the defence technology company that advises the Government, has The company, which develops and assesses biometrics, says urgent development On Tuesday, the Government is expected to face a rebellion by MPs when the Tomorrow, the Government will hold a “road-show” in the Home Office to An internal government report, prepared for the Home Office by the consultants “All biometrics will face some acceptance problems to some degree. Some of the Why the bald and pianists may fail test<\/p>\n * A bald man with a wrinkled forehead fooled the technology into thinking his * Manual labourers, pianists, guitarists and people who type a lot can fail * Disabled people have a higher than normal rate of misidentification, as do * People with eye problems more often fail iris scans.<\/p>\n * Accident victims risk failing biometric scans if their physical * Being photographed then scanned in a different light can cause Hi-tech equipment could misidentify one in 1,000 people, say experts By Marie Woolf, Francis Elliott and Sophie Goodchild The Indpeendent on Sunday, 16 October 2005 http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/politics\/article320003.ece One in 1,000 people could be inaccurately identified by the hi-tech scans being planned … Continue reading
\nbeing planned for national ID cards, experts have warned.<\/p>\n
\npeople on ID cards. But studies have found that being scanned in the wrong
\ntype of light or in shadow could lead to an inaccurate ID, because biometric
\ntechnology is flawed.<\/p>\n
\nfingertips are worn or nicked, could find their fingerprints are not
\nrecognised. Men who go bald risk being identified as someone else, experts
\nsay. Pianists, guitarists and typists – whose fingerprints can be worn down –
\ncould also face inaccurate readings.<\/p>\n
\ndisabled people have a higher chance of being incorrectly matched against
\ntheir true ID. People with eye problems also have a relatively high chance of
\ninaccurate identification.<\/p>\n
\npeople, while facial recognition scans have falsely identified one in 1,000
\nindividuals.<\/p>\n
\nwarned that biometrics now being used to identify people on a small scale –
\nsuch as people entering football grounds, office buildings or shopping malls
\n– – may be insufficient for a national database of up to 64 million people.<\/p>\n
\nwork needs to be done before ID cards are rolled out in 2008. It said a
\nbiometric scan in the United States failed because it concluded a man who
\nwent bald and had a wrinkled forehead had an upside-down face.<\/p>\n
\nCommons votes on the ID cards Bill. Around 20 Labour MPs are expected to vote
\nwith the Tories and Liberal Democrats against the proposals.<\/p>\n
\ndemonstrate that the biometric scans work. Sources close to Charles Clarke,
\nthe Home Secretary, said the tour of the technology around the country had
\nfound little public resistance to biometrics. The Government believes that
\nusing a combination of three scans will cut down the risk of inaccurate
\nrecognition.<\/p>\n
\nAmtec, warned in May 2003 that “no biometric system can ever be 100 per cent
\naccurate”. The study identified serious flaws in the technology and said they
\nmay not be accepted by the population.<\/p>\n
\ngeneral population do not have the body part (or sufficient quality of the
\nbody part) required for measuring any one biometric except face,” he said.
\n“Some face-recognition techniques are exposed to instability, in particular
\nbecause of some people’s voluntary change of appearance, the effects of
\nageing, and differences in illumination between environments.”<\/p>\n
\nface was upside down.<\/p>\n
\nscans because their fingerprints are worn down.<\/p>\n
\nthe elderly and black people.<\/p>\n
\ncharacteristics change; identical twins can be muddled up because they look
\ntoo similar.<\/p>\n
\nmisidentification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"