Het aftasten van het gezicht voor luchtpassagiers om in het UK te beginnen
Door Owen Bowcott |
De passagiers van de luchtvaartlijn moeten met gezichtserkenningstechnologie eerder dan controles door paspoortambtenaren worden onderzocht in een poging om veiligheid te verbeteren en congestie te verlichten, kan de Beschermer openbaren.
Van de zomer, zullen de onbemande ontruimingspoorten worden geleidelijk ingevoerd om passagiers' af te tasten gezichten en het beeld aan te passen aan het verslag op de computerspaander in hun biometrische paspoorten.
De de veiligheidsambtenaren van de grens geloven de machines een beter werk kunnen doen dan mensen van het onderzoeken van paspoorten en het verhinderen van identiteitsfraude. Het proefproject zal open aan Britse en van de EU burgers zijn die nieuwe biometrische paspoorten houden.
Maar er is zorg dat de passagiers slecht aan wordt verworpen door een geautomatiseerde poort zullen reageren. Niemand op een politiehorloge garanderen wordt de lijst verkeerd door gelaten, zal de technologie zich aan de kant van voorzichtigheid vergissen en zal waarschijnlijk een klein aantal „valse negatieven“ produceren - onschuldige passagiers verworpen omdat de machines hun verschijning aan de verslagen niet kunnen aanpassen.
Zij kunnen in conventionele paspoortrijen worden opnieuw gericht, of de ambtenaren kunnen worden gemachtigd om automatische poorten na extra controles met voeten te treden.
De ministers zijn enthousiast om proeven op tijd voor de stormloop van de de zomervakantie op te zetten, maar hebben nog te beslissen om hoeveel luchthavens zullen deelnemen. Als succesvol, zal de technologie tot alle Britse luchthavens worden uitgebreid.
De geautomatiseerde ontruimingspoorten introduceren de nieuwe technologie voor het eerst aan de Britse massamarkt en kunnen de ervaring van het publiek van luchthavens omzetten.
Biometrisch bestaan, fast-track reisregelingen - iris en miSense - werkt bij verscheidene Britse luchthavens, maar gericht op handelsreiziger die vooraf inschrijven.
Het verwerpingstarief in proeven van iriserkenning, door middel van de unieke beelden van het oog van elke reiziger, is 3% tot 5%, hoewel wat passagiers waren die niet werden ingeschreven maar in de rij waren gesprongen.
De proeven kwamen op een conferentie in Londen te voorschijn deze week de internationale biometrieindustrie, de hoogste ambtenaren in grenscontrole, en deskundigen van de politietechnologie. Gary Murphy, hoofd van operationele ontwerp en ontwikkeling voor het Britse Agentschap van de Grens, vertelde één zitting: „Wij denken een machine een beter werk [dan bemande paspoortinspecties] kan doen. Wat de openbare reactie zal zijn? Zullen zij het gebruiken? We need to test and see how people react and how they deal with rejection. We hope to get the trial up and running by the summer.
Some conference participants feared passengers would only be fast-tracked to the next bottleneck in overcrowded airports. Automated gates are intended to help the government’s progress to establishing a comprehensive advance passenger information (API) security system that will eventually enable flight details and identities of all passengers to be checked against a security watch list.
Phil Booth of the No2Id Campaign said: “Someone is extremely optimistic. The technology is just not there. The last time I spoke to anyone in the facial recognition field they said the best systems were only operating at about a 40% success rate in a real time situation. I am flabbergasted they consider doing this at a time when there are so many measures making it difficult for passengers.”
Gus Hosein, a specialist at the London School of Economics in the interplay between technology and society, said: “It’s a laughable technology. US police at the SuperBowl had to turn it off within three days because it was throwing up so many false positives. The computer couldn’t even recognise gender. It’s not that it could wrongly match someone as a terrorist, but that it won’t match them with their image. A human can make assumptions, a computer can’t.”
Project Semaphore, the first stage in the government’s e-borders programme, monitors 30m passenger movements a year through the UK. By December 2009, API will track 60% of all passengers and crew movements. The Home Office aim is that by December 2010 the system will be monitoring 95%. Total coverage is not expected to be achieved until 2014 after similar checks have been introduced for travel on “small yachts and private flights”.
So far around 8m to 10m UK biometric passports, containing a computer chip holding the carrier’s facial details, have been issued since they were introduced in 2006. The last non-biometric passports will cease to be valid after 2016.
Home Office minister Liam Byrne said: “Britain’s border security is now among the toughest in the world and tougher checks do take time, but we don’t want long waits. So the UK Border Agency will soon be testing new automatic gates for British and European Economic Area [EEA] citizens. We will test them this year and if they work put them at all key ports [and airports].”
The EEA includes all EU states as well as Norway, Switzerland and Iceland.
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steve k
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Aldo
Posted: Apr 25th, 2008 at 9:35 pm | Link to this
ReplyI have nothing to hid and abide by all the laws of the UK and anywhere I travel to, but I now simply won’t travel under this type data collection, I feel this is a step too far just to travel around in an airplane that could be downed from the ground with a Surface to air missile, it would be much easier for terrorist to attack an airplane from the ground without risk to himself… So i am asking myself, will this face scan save me from the terrorists?
A… No Chance
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As stated in the article a computer face regognition system is seriousely flawed and i cannot believe that a computer can see a potential criminal behaviour pattern such as extreme nervousness and sweating , fidgiting ect ect that a human would obviousely pick up on . Also there is a serious concern as too the data on a person that may be stored , what happens if you are flagged as a false positive will that data be removed or kept , and what with the recent appalling track record recently of personal data going missing by U.K. governmental departments , just how safe will that stored data be and what assurances have we got that data recorded will only be used for benign purposess? .