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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. That explains alot... by chriso11 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps this is why I can't remember anyone's name - half the people look the same

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  2. Everybody runs. by Mulletproof · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's the future. The Police stop crime before it happens. They are never wrong.

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  3. Re:99.99% accurate?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    check out a brian map for how much of our cortex is dedicated to face recognition

    How much is used for transposing of letters? :)