[Year 12 IT Apps] Biometrics article

[Mark KELLY]

It's the "less than .01 per cent error rate" that worries me a bit.

Does that mean one in a thousand crims will get loose?  How much is  a
government prepared to spend for a one-in-a-*million* error rate?

It would be interesting to know what the current error rate is using
carbon-based life-form security agents.

;-)

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:38 PM, PIKE Philip <PIKEP at bmg.vic.edu.au> wrote:

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> http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/348102/sa_prisons_get_biometrics_systems/?eid=-255
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