ThirdFactor | Ontario utilizing facial biometrics to bar problem gamblers

Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. (OLG) has decided to solve their issue of helping gambling addicts stay out of casinos by turning to facial biometrics, according to an IT Business article. Allowing gambling addicts to sign-up for a self-exclusion list to bar themselves from casinos is nothing new to the OLG, however, the previous solution did not prove very useful in identifying individuals and keeping them out.

The solution they have enacted they actually already had installed as a way to catch known cheats before they enter the casino. According to OLG officials, the challenge here was expanding and strengthening the technology while keeping privacy and security of enrollees’ data a top priority.

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The results, which included 251,447 attempts to use biometrics for login to the testing system, ranked between 99.34% and 100% accuracy with zero false matches. This is a near 100% true accept rate and one staff member that logged in 5,999 in November without a single rejection.

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SAIC awarded contract from U.S. Army

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Spanish government invites SeMarket for CWID demo

SeMarket was invited to present a biometric system by the Spanish Ministry of Defense at the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID), according to a Security Park article. The system that SeMarket was demonstrating was their new facial recognition system, called BioFaceAlert, which is capable of facial recognition through video surveillance and alerting personnel when specified matches have been made.

UK police officers to get biometric scanners

UK police officers will be receiving mobile biometrics scanners by 2010 to use for mobile identification of individuals without having to take a suspect into the station, according to a ZD Net Asia article. The new devices will work on fingerprints at first. However, Geoff Whitaker, CTO of biometrics at the National Policing Improvement Agency, said facial biometric capabilities could be added in the future.

Turkey beginning biometric passport program in June

The Turkey Foreign Ministry has announced biometric passport administration is expected to begin in the country starting on June 1 with Turkish citizens being allowed to being applying for the new documents starting on May 23, according to a Today’s Zaman article.

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