Saturday, December 30, 2006

Iris-recognition System For Kids

GALVESTON — Technology developed to keep track of prisoners by scanning their irises became available Thursday to identify missing children or elderly people afflicted with Alzheimer's disease in Galveston County.

The Galveston County Sheriff's Department is the first sheriff's department in Texas and the 47th nationwide to join the Children's Identification Database, or CHILD Project.

The addition of Galveston County is part of an effort to image the irises of 5 million children into a nationwide database over the next few years, said Robert Melley, vice president and CEO of Biometric Intelligence & Identification.


Don't buy the claim that they will program "the database to remove an iris scan automatically once a child turns 18". What's to prevent them from storing the images somewhere else? Guess we should all just trust 'em. We all know how honorable and moral the Police are.
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