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木曜日、2009年3月5日

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「Ainsley。 Babcock。 柔和。 Carthorse。 へこみ。 Ellsworth獣の専攻学生。 Ellsworth獣の未成年者」。 私達の何人かのために、ナナカマドのAtkinsonの記録を取っている教師の独白は学校の生命の本質を呪文で呼び出す。 しかし従来の方法がハイテクな顔の認識の技術を支持して断念されているところないHuntingdonのSt Neotsのコミュニティ・カレッジで、Cambridgeshire。

加わっている誰が1月に始まり、7月まで動く試験プログラムに学校に130人の第6formers、128がのある。 学生は、またプロセッサーおよびキーパッドを含んでいる単位の部分によって彼らの細部をカメラの前に立つこと登録する。 カメラは写真を取り、目間の中間点である表面のための「基準点」を確立する。 それから、それは鼻に関して測定を、上部の唇および頬および暗号化する独特な生物測定に改宗者それらの数取る。

学生がまたは学校外チェックインするとき、キーパッドにピンに入り、カメラを見る。 写真からの測定は学生の生物測定の鑑定器と一致し、到着(または出発)の時は単位の内部コンピュータで貯えられる。 全プロセスは2秒以下かかる。

しかしなぜか。 結局、記録を呼ぶローテク方法は生成のためにとてもよく働いた。 スコットプレストン、St Neotsの代理の校長は、システム提供を第6形態の出席についての正確なデータを集める簡単な方法言う、従って学生は教育維持の手当(EMA) -ポスト16の教育のより貧しい学生のための政府の補助金を要求できる。

科学のレッスン

建築工業は幾年もの間同僚のために時間を記録している従業員を不正に防ぐのに顔面認識システムを使用したがより広い使用を正当化するには技術はただ最近十分に正確になってしまった。 St Neotsシステムを供給するAuroraがなす主革新は映像を撮るとき、正確さが照明状態によって変化しない意味する赤外線ライトの使用である。 「それは表面上の一貫したライトをはねかけるので、それが真っ暗または明るい日光であるかどうか」、言うヒューCarr Archer、オーロラの行政長官を重要ではない。

顔の認識がまだ(複数の百万で1つの故障率がある)の精度にアイリス認識一致させない間、Carr Archerは信じる市場のほとんどの生物測定の技術よりずっと現在よくすることを。 It makes no difference if the subject is wearing glasses or has grown a beard. He claims the technology can even cope with the changing bone structure of growing children, though this has not yet been fully put to the test.

Biometrics technologies are now widespread in schools: an estimated 1 million children have had their fingerprints taken for activities as mundane as borrowing library books or paying for school dinners. This rapid growth is down to the efforts of “enterprising small companies”, according to Simon Fance, project officer at the United Kingdom Biometrics Institute.

Because biometrics are a useful way of controlling access, they are being adopted by other organisations, such as nurseries. At UK borders, passport officials are being replaced by cameras that check travellers’ faces against the image held in their passports. One of the concerns for civil liberties campaigners is the blurry line between access control and surveillance: in Newham, east London, face recognition has been used in conjunction with CCTV as a means of identifying criminals in a crowd.

The dystopia envisaged by campaigners is one where the state holds increasing amounts of data on its citizens, which can then be easily matched to unique biometric identifiers. David Clouter, a parent activist from the pressure group Leave Them Kids Alone, regards the use of biometrics in schools as “a disproportionate response to a nonexistent problem” and believes it is a “giant softening-up exercise for the next generation to accept biometric identity in some form”. Children will get so used to offering their fingerprints or staring into a camera that they won’t challenge it when the state asks them to do it: “Every traffic warden, every minor official, will go round fingerprinting everybody. And people won’t see it as out of the ordinary, which it most certainly is.”

Vital statistics

The other issue worrying Clouter is that schools hold large quantities of data on children - not only names, addresses and dates of birth, but information on attendance, library-borrowing habits and attainment, raising the possibility that a single biometric could be used to access huge amounts of personal data held on different systems, including ones held by other authorities: “The more biometric information floating around in insecure places like schools, the more chance there is of it being left on memory sticks or sent somewhere on a CD and lost,” he says.

Carr Archer argues that security concerns are misplaced when it comes to the system used by St Neots. Even if the encryption were to be broken, he says, Aurora’s method of taking measurements is proprietary, so the data couldn’t be used elsewhere (although that could of course change if the Aurora technology becomes widely adopted). Preston is equally confident: “The box is a one-stop shop. There is a network connection that enables you to produce reports, but in terms of getting into the data and misusing it, you’d have to take the box off the wall.”

If the St Neots pilot is successful, Aurora will market it to other schools, though they have yet to decide a pricing model. Currently, the units cost a hefty ?4,000 each (though St Neots isn’t being charged anything). In the meantime, schools’ enthusiasm for biometric technologies shows no sign of abating. Clouter and his colleagues can expect to be busy for some time yet.

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