tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post4506119718757954027..comments2024-03-24T08:26:00.732+00:00Comments on photopol: BiometricPólóhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-80244735289997377052013-07-25T18:57:44.226+01:002013-07-25T18:57:44.226+01:00And, no. The little thing at the bottom of the cov...And, no. The little thing at the bottom of the cover is simply the logo for biometric.<br />Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-2605297124829486462013-07-17T11:56:00.232+01:002013-07-17T11:56:00.232+01:00@me
Like I said, I expected to have to appear in ...@me<br /><br />Like I said, I expected to have to appear in person for a scan, but they are doing it by proxy via the photos. <br /><br />This might just be understandable if they were working on full size digital images, but these are ordinary wee hardcopy passport photos.<br /><br />While it is, correctly, described as biometrics, it must perforce be of the crudest kind and quite possibly subject to serious errors.<br /><br />We may get some idea of how useful it is when it is in use for a while and if we can persuade the NSA to release the data. :)<br /><br />I think the analysis bit in the definition of biometrics needs to be taken with a grain of salt in this case, though much purely descriptive material now passes for "analysis" in today's media.<br /><br />Part of the reason for my posting this was to warn all speccy four eyes to "beware of the glare" and to draw attention to the possible scope for net employment creation arising from the advent of the "biometric" passport.<br /><br />Pólóhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08661092894104384856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19109033.post-17229985686225368992013-07-17T10:53:28.081+01:002013-07-17T10:53:28.081+01:00They're doing biometrics from photographs?? I&...They're doing biometrics from photographs?? I'm going to look up 'biometrics', because it looks as if I'm dreaming ...<br /><br />"In information technology, biometrics refers to technologies that measure and analyze human body characteristics, such as DNA, fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns and hand measurements, for authentication purposes." <br /><br />Measure and analyze. Well, I suppose the measure part could (possibly) be done from photographs but analyze? Like how?<br /><br />It's not that I'm in favour of biometric data being held on all of us ... it's just that I don't understand this blog story.menoreply@blogger.com