By Nick Heath
Published: Wednesday 05 March 2008
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Name
Tim Jackson
Location
Rossendale Lancs.
Occupation
Engineer
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This depends on biometrics making a positive identification with a database of undesirables.
Biometrics may be good as identifying that someone is NOT who they claim to be, a negative identification, but I doubt that it is anywhere near as good at identifying that they ARE someone else.
Does anyone have any figures on how reliable this technology when used in this way? I can't imagine the hit rate is very high at all. And it gives the overworked and highly stressed officials an excuse to skip other checks.
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