Face-Scanning Loses by a Nose in Palm Beach

Rio writes: "A story from myCFnow.com reports that Palm Beach International Airport officials said face-scanning technology will not become part of their airport's security system." Looks like the ACLU was right. Checking a database of 15 employees, the technology gave false-negatives -- failed to recognize the test subjects -- over 50% of the time. A spokesperson said, "There's room for improvement." The Pentagon said the same thing in February. The false-positive rate is more important -- it isn't mentioned, but even if it were just 0.1%, Bruce Schneier argues, it'd be useless.

That explains alot...

[chriso11]

Perhaps this is why I can't remember anyone's name - half the people look the same

Everybody runs.

[Mulletproof]

It's the future. The Police stop crime before it happens. They are never wrong [apple.com].

Re:99.99% accurate??

[Anonymous Coward]

check out a brian map for how much of our cortex is dedicated to face recognition

How much is used for transposing of letters? :)

Figures...

[Decimal]

The system can't even tell Gore from Buchanan. Typical of Florida.