{"id":100,"date":"2006-03-11T22:17:02","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T22:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=100"},"modified":"2006-03-11T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T22:28:24","slug":"look-into-my-iris-for-rollcall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=100","title":{"rendered":"Look into my iris for rollcall"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Hannah Edwards
\nMarch 12, 2006<\/div>\n

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EYE-SCANNING cameras may replace rollcall at NSW schools if a trial of the high-tech machines is successful.The iris-recognition cameras, similar to those used in jails and airports, are being trialled in three NSW schools.<\/p>\n

They have already been installed at Lidcombe TAFE, where students entering the high-security photonics laboratory are required to look into the cameras to be allowed into the laboratory.<\/p>\n

Schools have shown interest in using the scanners to record student attendance, taking the roll in the morning and monitoring truancy.<\/p>\n

A camera in the device photographs the iris; the photo data is transmitted to a central database to find a match.<\/p>\n

The security company conducting the trials, Argus Solutions, says the technology is more advanced and accurate than DNA matching.<\/p>\n

“It’s not invasive and is non-threatening,” chief executive Bruce Lyman said.<\/p>\n

“The cameras are set up at a point in the school that is as close to the front gate as possible. Students scan at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day.”<\/p>\n

For a school of 1000 students, the average cost of using the technology is about $5 a student a term.<\/p>\n

The technology is already entrenched at schools in Britain, Mr Lyman said.<\/p>\n

Parents’ reaction to the new technology was expected to be mixed, the Council of Catholic School Parents’ executive director Danielle Cronin said.<\/p>\n

“It’s great for security,” Ms Cronin said. “The flipside is that there are issues of privacy and dignity with the children being passed through gates like cattle<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/<\/a><\/p>\n

My emphasis.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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