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EyeLock, a firm with patented iris-scanning identification systems, announced on Thursday that it had received the prestigious Edison Silver Award for innovation. EyeLock’s iris technology is not only more secure than cards, PIN numbers, and fingerprint scanning; it’s also much easier and less intrusive to use.
EyeLock’s devices look at more than 240 unique iris characteristics, and unlike most other biometric firms, it uses dual-eye authentication for added security, since no two irises are alike. For reference, while the false acceptance rate for voice recognition is 1 in 500, and for fingerprint ID 1 in 10,000, for a single-iris ID it is 1 in 1.5 million. (The only method of securing someone’s identity more securely would be direct DNA matching.)
The firm is targeting a wide range of services to use its technology, including ATMs, vehicles, mass registration, and the internet of things…
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