RegardingID Archive | UK community college employing facial biometrics

Saturday, March 7, 2009

At St. Neots Community College in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, students must now show their attendance through a facial biometrics system and PIN, according to an Autonomous Media Network Alternative News article.

The systems, provided by biometric developer Aurora, uses an infrared light camera to take the picture of a user and compare to the enrollment sample the user first supplied. Because of the use of infrared light, the camera operates equally well no matter the light conditions.

Some privacy rights groups are upset over the new biometrics systems that have been showing up in schools citing them as unnecessary solutions to nonexistent problems as well as fears over the data not being secure enough. Additionally, some privacy advocates worry that introducing systems like these into schools is simply a way to desensitize future generations to wide-spread biometric use.

As for worries over security of the data, St. Neots has assured the public that their system’s data is unique to Aurora in that it would be useless to use with nay other system and the data can not be accessed from outside sources such as hacking.

Read the full story here.

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