Posts Tagged ‘biometrics’

Voice Recognition Software Puts Top Cop In Hot Water

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Yesterday I read a fascinating story from Australia…

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FBI Plans to Catalog Everyone’s Physical Characteristics, and Bush Does Away With Privacy Oversight Board

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Here’s something scary…
I just saw a new CNN report that made me go, “Huh?!”
FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping

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Security: NIST Releases Report on Biometrics Advances

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

Improved algorithms used in facial recognition software programs have improved the success of such technology by up to ten times since 2002, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) said in a report,”Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006 Large-Scale Results” issued March 29.

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