FIVE-MINUTE Biometrics PRIMERS: Iris Recognition

Overview

The Policing Project’s primers aim to facilitate informed and accurate public debate around one of the more complex—and rapidly changing—areas of policing: the use of biometric technologies. In each of our primers in this series we explore four questions about a particular type of biometric technology:

  1. How are police using this technology?

  2. How does the technology work?

  3. How accurate is the technology?

  4. Are there reasons why the public should be concerned?

Our second primer covers iris recognition, a technology deployed nationwide but without the news coverage and public discussion that has met other high profile biometric technologies.

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