Posted on 12 December 2005, 10:32 am, by Public Strategist, under
Identity,
Stockholm.
One of the more interesting breakout workstreams was on ‘the trust cluster’ – which unfortunately was not the one I was in. I did though have a very interesting conversation with one of the presenters in that group. Malcolm Crompton, who was until recently Australia’s privacy commissioner and is now the MD of an outfit [...]
Posted on 21 October 2005, 9:41 am, by Public Strategist, under
Identity.
Checking a person against a biometric is a way of establishing their identity. So checking them against two biometrics ought to establish their identity with greater confidence. Wrong. As it turns out, in some cases, using a second biometric can significantly increase the error rate: Suppose weak Biometric 1 operates with both of its error [...]