Monday, October 18, 2004

Govt biometric ID cards could be vulnerable to fraud, warn experts / Computer Weekly, 15 Oct 2004


http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=134258&liArticleTypeID=1&liCategoryID=2&liChannel
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"A leading biometrics expert has warned the government that biometric ID cards, due to be rolled out from 2007, could be vulnerable to fraud unless it invests in more sophisticated iris recognition technology.
Professor John Daugman, who pioneered the developed of iris recognition at Cambridge University said that the biometric systems under test by the government were not sophisticated enough to distinguish between real and fake eye images."