IRIS RECOGNITION
March 1st, 2002
BY MONICA DOBIE, in MontrealINTERNATIONAL airports across Canada will begin using iris scanners to speed up the security processing of passengers as early as this summer.Toronto and Vancouver airports are expected to be the first to install the devices, in August; they would allow selected travellers to confirm their identities through a checkpoint scan within thirty seconds or less upon arrival at Canada Customs.The scanner will take a detailed picture of a persons' iris, noting the patterns of lines, freckles and striations, and feed the information into a ...
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