Washington, May 29 (ANI): Iris scanning, the most advanced security tool already used at airports and border crossings in United Arab Emirates, India and Jordan is nowhere to be found in the U.S, thanks to privacy concerns and infrastructure issues.
According to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman, iris scanners aren't planned for the U.S.
And so, barring the US, Airports and security checkpoints everywhere in the world could use the machines, which take an instant picture of the eyeball from a few feet away and compare it against an internal database, in the hunt for terror suspects or illegal immigrants.
"In UAE, we've scanned more than 40 million people from all nationalities and caught 600,000 trying to come back over the years by changing their name," Imad Malhas, the founder of manufacturer IrisGuard, told FoxNews.com.
India has already enrolled about 600 million people in an initial phase, said Joe O'Carroll, the vice president at the company, which has deployed its scanners in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Jeff Carter, the chief data officer at Hoyes Group, says that iris scanning is the best identification method available. He says a fingerprint only has about 100 points to identify, and even a perfect capture uses only 15 points. False IDs occurring in about 1 out of every 10,000 is captured.
Shane MacDougall, a principal at Tactical Intelligence, also called iris scanning arguably the best identification method for use at border crossings, but there are several challenges that will make it difficult to deploy in the U.S. at major airports and borders.
"We would need to deploy [the terminals] across the country in large numbers, reconfigure the software, train people on how to use them, and most importantly build a retina scan database," he said.
"Building that database may be the biggest challenge of all," he added. (ANI)
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