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City of Brockton Police Chief, William K. Conlon said, “This is the wave of the future. It will complement and enhance the capabilities of our existing fingerprint and iris recognition biometric systems. And, with the addition MORIS™, our officers will be able to enroll and compare the unique descriptive features contained in the face against a database of individuals to determine identity and criminal information in seconds, out in the community, using the wireless multi-modal biometric capability on the iPhone.
Via James Poulos comes this treat.
I’m a little surprised this hasn’t been built for civilians yet. Snapping a photo of someone and pulling up their social media profile (or their sex offender registry entry, whatevs) seems like a use case with even more demand than identifying criminals.
My suspicion: we are about ten years away from self-generating biometric primary keys. The idea of trying to “run a match” based on biometric (or behavioral) attributes against an existing database will become obsolete, since the analytical systems will be able to compute a unique ID on the fly, knowing that the same patterns will factor down to the same key no matter when or where they are harvested. You won’t be assigned an ID — you’ll simply be the ID.
