Banking under Enduring Power of Attorney

[Ian Batten]

On 11 Apr 2009, at 12:21, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Ian Batten:
>
>> 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.
>
> How do you conduct such tests?  Deploy it and count?  Somehow I can't
> imagine hundreds of people waving at detectors in a lab, over a period
> of several weeks.

Yup, that's pretty much what they did.  Some years ago, when it was in  
trial, the guys behind it cruised around various Fujitsu buildings  
getting as many volunteers are possible so they could look for  
clashes, reliability and so on.

ian