Re: Photo ID

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In a message dated 16/09/01 04:21:27 GMT Daylight Time, arfmonster@hotmail.com writes:


> Any one know how easy it would be to adapt the British Photo Id software for 
> use in airports? I mean the casinos already use a primitive version that 
> goes off of photos and does not make the mathmatical equation that becomes 
> unique to each person. I mean ALL airports use heavy camera survealleince 
> already. How hard would it be to hook those into the FBI watch list, or most 
> wanted lists? Some airports already have acess to the NCIC do'nt they? It 
> seems a realtive easy and effective tool. Last I knew the software always 
> found the people, the olnly problem was that 1 in 10 was a false positive, 
> if the person is there, it found em. And given the fact that these areas are 
> already watched, I can not see any infringemnets of civil liberties.
>
> arf
> Travis


The down side being that terrorist organisations rapidly learn not to use people that can be easily linked to them. The authorities simply don't know who to look out for. This tactic has certainly been successful for Irish Republicans operating in mainland Britain for several years.

Charles