Iris Scaning: Security Breakthrough Or Privacy Invasion?

by Dave Wagner – Information Week
New technology allows irises to be scanned from 40 feet away. Is this a wonder weapon against crime and terrorism or a way for governments to invade our privacy and track our movements?

Imagine if you could be identified with certainty from 40 feet away by anyone with a special camera and your iris scan in a database. Carnegie Mellon researchers at the Cylab Biometrics Center have <a target="_blank" href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2015/05/22/Iris-scanner-can-ID-a-person-from-40-feet-away/7071432303037/" target='invented a device that can do that. It should definitely have criminals feeling nervous, but maybe we should all be nervous.

First the good news. According …read more