me wrote:
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2006/10/07/etbiometrics07.xml
>
> Swedes lead in air security
>
> (Filed: 07/10/2006)
>
> By Danielle Demetriou
>
> A Swedish airline claims to have come up with a system to ensure rogue
> bags will never find their way on to aircraft without their owners.
> advertisement
>
> Scandinavian Airlines is conducting a four-week trial of the new
> biometric security measures on its domestic flights. Starting next
> week, travellers departing from Lulea airport on the Baltic Sea will
> have their index finger scanned when they check in their luggage. A
> second scan will be made at the departure gate.
>
> The procedure ensures the person handling the baggage is the same as
> the passenger boarding the aircraft. Fingerprints are stored
> temporarily and deleted after the departure of the flight.
>
> If the trial is successful, Scandinavian Airlines will introduce the
> new biometric technique at airports throughout Sweden this autumn and
> extend its use to international flights.
>
> Passengers are not legally obliged to provide their fingerprints, but
> most people taking part in the trial have done so, according to
> Ingegerd Olsbro-Fehrm of Scandinavian Airlines.
>
> "This system is the first of its kind," she said. "It is more secure
> than people checking ID on boarding the planes. It is also a quicker
> way for passengers to pass through the gate to board, as they don't
> need to show ID cards."
>
> British airlines have been looking at a similar system, but no date has
> been set for its introduction.
>
It will be interesting to see what their rate of false negatives is ahd
how they manage to cope with it. I suppose that there will be few
enough real negatives to even begin to test for false positives.
Perhaps they should retain the data for a little and see how many of the
bags would have been cleared for loading for a different flight.
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