Thursday, March 02, 2006

BioBouncer Might Make Bars Safer / Wired News, 28 Feb 2006

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70265-0.html?tw=rss.index
Rachel Metz
"BioBouncer is his solution. Its camera snaps customers entering clubs and bars, and facial recognition software compares them with stored images of previously identified troublemakers. The technology alerts club security to image matches, while innocent images are automatically flushed at the end of each night, Dussich said. Various clubs can share databases through a virtual private network, so belligerent drunks might find themselves unwelcome in all their neighborhood bars."