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School biometrics, typically electronic fingerprinting systems, have raised privacy concerns because of the creation of databases that would progressively include the entire population. The UK introduced legal duties on schools if they wish to use biometric information about pupils, in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 .
ISO/IEC 19794 Information technology—Biometric data interchange formats—Part 5: Face image data, or ISO/IEC 19794-5 for short, is the fifth of 8 parts of the ISO/IEC standard ISO/IEC 19794, published in 2005, which describes interchange formats for several types of biometric data.
According to Jim Wayman, director of the National Biometric Test Center at San Jose State University, Walt Disney World is the nation's largest single commercial application of biometrics. [8] However, the US-VISIT program will very soon surpass Walt Disney World for biometrics deployment.
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Biometrics are body measurements and calculations related to human characteristics and features. Biometric authentication (or realistic authentication) is used in computer science as a form of identification and access control. It is also used to identify individuals in groups that are under surveillance.
Serious concerns about the security implications of using conventional biometric templates in schools have been raised by a number of leading IT security experts, [99] one of whom has voiced the opinion that "it is absolutely premature to begin using 'conventional biometrics' in schools". [100]
With biometrics, rather than comparing the entire image, biometric points are placed at key locations, measurements are taken between all the points, and the results are compiled into a "score." A score can be easily obtained from every image on file and stored in the database.