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Re: Eyeball scan

To: med-privacy@essential.org
Subject: Re: Eyeball scan
From: Antonio Regalado <regalado@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 10:28:36 -0400
In-Reply-To: <d8fbba9f.2460f331@aol.com>


Leading company in iris scans is Sensar (Moorestown, NJ), a spin-off from
Sarnoff Corp.  Have been field testing iris-scans in ATMs in England for
quite a while. Using software licensed from IriScan (Marlton, NJ) a small
camera detects patterns in the pupil, and compares it with a stored image.
Its essentially equivalent to the bank having your fingerprints on file.
Like fingerprints (and unlike DNA) the iris pattern provides little or no
information other than a unique identifier.




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