“ And it seems safety agents have blind spots too.
You might count on a security agent would ace matching faces to documents,
but it surely seems they’re no higher than the rest of us.
Would you do better than the average passport agent? U.S. "e-Passport" chips are supposed to help lower down on fraud, with the
(authorized) passport holder’s info also stored on the chip.
When a team of worldwide researchers tracked how well Australian passport officers might match a person’s face to his or her
passport picture, they logged a 15 percent "error rate" - about what you’d expect from civilians.
How huge a deal is that 15 percent? Earlier this yr, as the world obsessed over the bizarre disappearance Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, suspicion turned to 2 Iranians touring with
stolen European documents. It could mean "several thousand travelers bearing faux passports"
at Heathrow Airport every year, psychologist Rob Jenkins of the University of
York said in a press release in regards to the study (he did not reply to OZY’s makes an attempt to succeed in him). ”