Banking under Enduring Power of Attorney

[Nicholas Bohm]

Ian Batten wrote:
> 
> On 9 Apr 2009, at 11:39, Nicholas Bohm wrote:
>>
>> Do you have any details of the claimed error rates?
> 
> It's the Fujitsu PalmSecure technology (we should eat our own dogfood),
> integrated into a lock system compatible with the pre-existing equipment
> we have.
> 
>> Internal research by Fujitsu resulted in a false acceptance rate of
>> less than 0.00007% and a false rejection rate of only 0.00004%. False
>> acceptance rate is a rate at which someone other than the actual
>> person is falsely recognized. False rejection rate is a rate at which
>> the actual person is not recognized accurately.

These are very impressive rates - 7 and 4 errors in 10^7 trials
respectively, if I counted right.  This is vastly better than is claimed
for iris recognition, as far as I recall.  It's surprising that there
hasn't been more noise about it, and indeed independent research.

Cost could be a factor (a point which Brian M has raised), perhaps.

Nicholas
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