Iris Scanning For New Jersey Grade School

coolphysco1010 writes "When a parent arrives to pick up their child at one of three grade schools in the Freehold Borough School District, they'll need to look into a camera that will take a digital image of their iris. That photo will establish positive identification to gain entrance into the school..The Teacher-Parent Authorization Security System (T-PASS), a software application developed by Eyemetric Identity Systems, was installed on the front office computers at each of the three schools."

Comments

Does it test for dead people?

[amper]

I wonder how much testing they've done to see if you can fool the system by cutting someone's eyes out or their head off and holding it up to the camera. I suppose you would have to have iris pictures of the same person alive and dead to really test it. On a less morbid note, I wonder if you could fool it by kidnapping a parent, then taking a high resolution photo of their face. Can the system determine stress levels to see if the face it's looking at is under duress? Even easier, just force someone at gunpoint to look into the camera.

Re:Does it test for dead people?

[hesiod]

> I wonder how much testing they've done to see if you can fool the system by cutting someone's eyes out or their head off and holding it up to the camera.

So you're asking if they've killed anyone to test their security system? :) I guess that depends how (and how quickly) the necessary features of an eyeball deteriorate after death. In theory, I think it would last for a little while. In practice, holding a severed head up to the scanner at an elementary school may look a bit out of place.

Speaking of eye deterioration: I don't know much about iris scanning, but would a child's grandparent's cataracts interfere with scanning if they had to pick their grandkids up from school? I guess a better question is "should they be driving with those cataracts," but that's not the point.

Re:Does it test for dead people?

[SydBarrett]

I am sure no one at that grade school will notice if you hold a severed eye or photo in front of the scanning thingy. But then again this is in New Jersey.

Re:Iris database

[Billosaur]

And so if a parent refuses to have their privacy infringed just to pick their child up from school will the child be held indefinitely or expelled?

No. But we do have, shall we say, ways of persuading people. After all, we would hate to have anything happen to anyone... like an "accident", if youse know what I'm sayin'...

Re:Hooray for bullshit!

[Rude Turnip]

"What if parents divorce and only one has custody?"

Things are going to get nasty when that happens, the waiting line to pick up your kids will last for hours and the police will get called in when everyone starts to lose their temper. A lawsuit will probably ensue. So, let's see who's getting paid here:

1. the company that made the device
2. the school staff that must get paid overtime to manage the parental traffic jam
3. the police who have to come in and bust heads when the parents get unruly
4. the lawyers, because they're going to be involved at some point in this mess

That's at least 4 contingencies that will be getting paid. That's about par for the course around here.

Re:Foolproof system

[pilot-programmer]

That place must be real fun in a fire The schools use an amazing door lock technology that prevents people outside from opening the doors but allows people inside to open the doors without unlocking. Since you have never heard of such a thing, may I suggest going to see a movie. When the movie is over, leave throug the exits at the front of the theater instead of walking out the back with everybody else. Once you have exited and the door shuts, try opening it again. You will be amazed to find a door so easily opened from the inside cannot be opened from the outside! What will people think of next?

Always with the magnets

[Gulthek]

Principle Skinner: Just think--with that lottery money, we could buy history books that know how the Korean War came out, math books without that base-6 crap, and a state-of-the-art detention hall where the children are held in place with magnets.

Teacher: Magnets. Always with the magnets.

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