And who are you? (Image: Ian Waldie/Getty)
A BIOMETRIC trait is not just unique, it is also for life. That is one of the claims often made for biometric-based security systems like iris recognition. Now it appears that iris scans can produce subtly different patterns over time, so the older the image of a person’s iris stored on a computer, the more likely that the system will fail to match it to a new scan of their iris.
“The older the stored image of someone’s iris, the more likely the system will fail to match it to a new scan”…
