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Saturday, August 30, 2003
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
The Government of Canada says passport photos are no laughing matter: In fact, you're not even supposed to crack a smile.
. . . Canada Passport Office issued new specifications for passport photos and wants serious faces only. But not too serious. Not actually frowning or scowling or glaring or grimacing.
To get a valid passport, Canadians must now send in two photos with "neutral expressions." That means a closed-mouth, straight-ahead gaze into the camera.
Suzanne Meunier, a spokeswoman with the passport office, said the government is complying with recommendations of the International Civil Aviation Organization, the United Nations agency responsible for aviation issues . .
[...]
The Civil Aviation Organization is pushing for standardized photo specifications around the world to facilitate the introduction of biometric security devices, Ms. Meunier said.
The organization's goal is to have face-recognition scanners in airports around the world in the not too distant future. Some security experts are arguing for fingerprinting or iris-scanning, but the ICAO believes those are too intrusive.
That last sentence is a total fraud, however. The reporter was obviously just paraphrasing the solar government's spokesdrone. By checking the ICAO's own publicly posted documents, we see that "intrusiveness" is not listed as a key deciding criterion. But "global public perception," i.e., how intrusive YOU THINK it is - that's a criterion:
From International Civil Aviation Organization website:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY of the Technical Report on ICAO Work on Selection and Testing of a Biometric Technology for Identity Confirmation with Machine Readable Travel Documents (MRTDS)
[...]
evaluate each currently available biometric technology from a comprehensive system requirements perspective, applying seven (7) categories of criteria, as follows:
– compatibility with MRTD enrollment requirements
– compatibility with MRTD renewal requirements
– compatibility with MRTD machine-assisted identity verification requirements
– redundancy
– global public perception
– storage requirements
– performance
4. FINDINGS
[...]
The six (6) generic biometric technologies currently available can be separated into three (3) groups based on their overall ability to meet the comprehensive set of requirements defined for machine-assisted identity confirmation with MRTDs, as follows:
Group 1: Face achieves the highest compatibility rating (greater than 85%);
Group 2: Finger(s) and eye(s) emerge with a second-level compatibility rating (near 65%); and
Group 3: Signature, hand and voice emerge with a third-level compatibility rating (less than 50%).
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