Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Harvesting biometric data from the web

A web application comparing oneself to celebrities? Cute, sure. It's hosted off a genealogy site.

The technology got me curious. The application was powered by Cognitec GmbH.

One of their product applications: biometric border control.

The present: gathering biometric data from around the world enables them to refine their face recognition algorithms to handle the variety expressed by the human race.

The future: biometrics combined with genealogy data could be used to assess genetic background on the fly at borders and airports, enabling scans for relatives of suspects.

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