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Face-Scanning Loses by a Nose in Palm Beach

Posted by jamie on from the prima-facie dept.

Rio writes: "A story from myCFnow.com reports that Palm Beach International Airport officials said face-scanning technology will not become part of their airport's security system." Looks like the ACLU was right. Checking a database of 15 employees, the technology gave false-negatives -- failed to recognize the test subjects -- over 50% of the time. A spokesperson said, "There's room for improvement." The Pentagon said the same thing in February. The false-positive rate is more important -- it isn't mentioned, but even if it were just 0.1%, Bruce Schneier argues, it'd be useless.

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  1. It does ONE thing right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It wouldn't have any trouble recognizing Jon Katz's ugly face or his bad book/movie reviews. Any decent /. reader can't identify those in a second!