Touting the technology as a replacement for IDs, part of your laptop's login, or able to let cops know if the person they just pulled over is dangerous, the first effective long-range iris scanner has been developed by Marios Savvides, a Carnegie Mellon engineering professor:
"Fingerprints, they require you to touch something. Iris, we can capture it at a distance, so we're making the whole user experience much less intrusive, much more comfortable," Savvides [said]. Unlike other scanners, which required someone to step up to a machine, his scanner can capture someone's iris and face as they walk by.
"There's no X-marks-the-spot. There's no place you have to stand. Anywhere between six and 12 meters, it will find you, it will zoom in and capture both irises and full face," he said.
Iris scanning currently works only at close range, so it requires a level of cooperation of the person being scanned:
"It requires a level of cooperation that makes it very overt—a person knows that you're taking a picture for this purpose,"...If it succeeds, long-distance scanning will change all that. Savvides says his team has secured a patent for his invention and will continue to work to make it easier and cheaper. He continues, too, to look for positive implementations of it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 14 2015, @11:47PM
Along with all the politicians, the police, most judges, and the corporate / rich parasitic masters, I have added these scientists and engineers to my list of those who should face an accounting when we finally overthrow the rule of the rich parasite class.
Looking forward, we can pass laws to decriminalize nearly everything currently criminal, and make illegal all forms of surveillance with the strongest penalties for all involved.
Looking backward, we can make sure vile scum like those responsible for this long-distance iris scanner pound rocks for the rest of their days.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @10:20AM
>Looking forward, we can pass laws to decriminalize nearly everything currently criminal, and make illegal all forms of surveillance with the strongest penalties for all involved.
Including marrying cute young girl children?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 15 2015, @02:26PM
I think he meant stupid laws (war on some drugs etc), not sane laws such as those for child marriages and sexual relations with minors. Therefore you will still have to travel to a country without such laws to satisfy your dark desires.