Comments on: Heads I’m who I say I am, tails I’m not http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:23:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Watching Them, Watching Us http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not/comment-page-1/#comment-430 Watching Them, Watching Us Thu, 26 May 2005 21:36:14 +0000 http://heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not#comment-430 The Home Office now seem to have <b>censored</b> their Press Release: http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/n_story.asp?item_id=1303 Which now <b>no longer</b> states right at the top: "Please Note: There are currently no plans for further biometric trials." Surely they should have issued a separate press release or statement about this rather than just altering the original online version ? The Home Office now seem to have censored their Press Release:

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/n_story.asp?item_id=1303

Which now no longer states right at the top:

“Please Note: There are currently no plans for further biometric trials.”

Surely they should have issued a separate press release or statement about this rather than just altering the original online version ?

]]> By: John Lettice http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not/comment-page-1/#comment-429 John Lettice Thu, 26 May 2005 14:51:54 +0000 http://heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not#comment-429 The Home Office has now shoved the report up here: http://uk.sitestat.com/homeoffice/homeoffice/s?docs4.UKPS_Biometrics_Enrolment_Trial_Report&ns_type=pdf&ns_url=http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs4/UKPS_Biometrics_Enrolment_Trial_Report.pdf The Home Office has now shoved the report up here:
http://uk.sitestat.com/homeoffice/homeoffice/s?docs4.UKPS_Biometrics_Enrolment_Trial_Report&ns_type=pdf&ns_url=http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/docs4/UKPS_Biometrics_Enrolment_Trial_Report.pdf

]]> By: Watching Them, Watching Us http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Watching Them, Watching Us Thu, 26 May 2005 13:14:05 +0000 http://heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not#comment-428 The Verification times, under the ideal conditions of the enrolment centres, are astonishingly slow. 40 to 80 seconds average delay per person, when you are at the back of a queue of 400 Jumbo jet passengers is going to lead to intolerable queues, and the financial ruin of British Airports Authority etc. The worst case verifications took, on average 10 minutes each ! Any real life deployment of such "state of the art" equipment under less than ideal lighting conditions e.g. a local bank or doctors surgery is going to be even worse. The error rates are also way too high - they need to be fractions of a percent, not 4% to 30% ! The Government will spin that this trial was not actually testing the Biometric technology per se, but then it was not testing any of the large scale infrastructure or security threats either. Astonishingly, the Home Office Press release http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/n_story.asp?item_id=1303 states right at the top: "Please Note: There are currently no plans for further biometric trials." Of course Atos Origin, like any good consultamnts obviously reccommended "further studies are required". The Verification times, under the ideal conditions of the enrolment centres, are astonishingly slow.

40 to 80 seconds average delay per person, when you are at the back of a queue of 400 Jumbo jet passengers is going to lead to intolerable queues, and the financial ruin of British Airports Authority etc.

The worst case verifications took, on average 10 minutes each !

Any real life deployment of such “state of the art” equipment under less than ideal lighting conditions e.g. a local bank or doctors surgery is going to be even worse.

The error rates are also way too high – they need to be fractions of a percent, not 4% to 30% !

The Government will spin that this trial was not actually testing the Biometric technology per se, but then it was not testing any of the large scale infrastructure or security threats either.

Astonishingly, the Home Office Press release

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/n_story.asp?item_id=1303

states right at the top:

“Please Note: There are currently no plans for further biometric trials.”

Of course Atos Origin, like any good consultamnts obviously reccommended “further studies are required”.

]]> By: Watching Them, Watching Us http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Watching Them, Watching Us Thu, 26 May 2005 08:17:27 +0000 http://heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not#comment-427 The report and management summary are hiding under the Publications section of the UK Passport Service website: http://www.ukps.gov.uk/publications.asp The report and management summary are hiding under the Publications section of the UK Passport Service website:

http://www.ukps.gov.uk/publications.asp

]]> By: Geoff http://idealgovernment.com/2005/05/heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not/comment-page-1/#comment-426 Geoff Thu, 26 May 2005 04:20:16 +0000 http://heads_im_who_i_say_i_am_tails_im_not#comment-426 Weird about the iris failure rate. I went to a lecture by John Daughman http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jgd1000/iris_recognition.html which said no false positives have occurred in the UAE which use iris recognition for all immigration. "This is the reason why the United Arab Emirates deployment can perform 3 Billion iris comparisons every day without getting False Matches." see article http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jgd1000/largedatabases.html Weird about the iris failure rate. I went to a lecture by John Daughman http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jgd1000/iris_recognition.html which said no false positives have occurred in the UAE which use iris recognition for all immigration. “This is the reason why the United Arab Emirates deployment can perform 3 Billion iris comparisons every day without getting False Matches.” see article http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/jgd1000/largedatabases.html

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