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To: Frederick Langford who wrote (7236)	5/23/2002 2:04:13 PM
From: Dave Gore	Respond to of 16631

Fred/ALL-- Be careful of VSNX. More than 50% error rate reported yesterday. I'd be a bit leery of the technology. Palm Beach Test Shows Over 50% Error Rate For Facial RecognitionDespite Problems, Use Of Biometrics Likely To Increase For Airport Security May 22, 2002 (Airport Security Report/PBI Media from COMTEX) -- A recent facial recognition experiment at Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) found that the technology failed to correctly identify volunteer employees more than 50 percent of the time. Such a low success rate could be a serious blow to the suppliers of face recognition technology as the U.S. government considers using biometrics to tighten airport security. Using Visionics Corp.'s FaceIt facial recognition system, Palm Beach County's Department of Aviation discovered that eyeglasses, lighting, motion, photographic quality and angle contributed to the large error rate. The system failed to identify airport employees entered into a database 503 out of 958 times, or 53 percent of the time. "Facial recognition is a clunker that holds little promise to make us safer," said Randall Marshall, legal director of Florida's American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). "Even with recent, high-quality photographs and subjects who were not trying to fool the system, the face recognition technology was less accurate than a coin toss." The test was conducted from March 11 to April