Biometrics From Reel To Real

Biometrics is the science of analyzing different biological data. A example of what you could be analyzing is DNA. Biometrics also involves the use of many different technology equipment. The article Biometrics: From Reel to Real by Dan Tynan talks indepth about all the different things that can be used to determine who you are. First they talk about how they use biometrics in everyday life, like at businesses and schools. At schools they use them in the lunchrooms to make it easier for students to pay. All the student has to do is scan their finger and it pulls their account up. In businesses they use finger scanners to get to certain things, such as documents in a computer. They even talk about how you can buy a finger scanner for personal documents on your computer for $50. The article then goes on to talk about the current ways that we are using technology in biometrics. These include voice, DNA, facial features, and more. …show more content…
We can determine biometrics through many different features such as your eyes. Your eyes can be used by being scanned and identified. They have two kinds of eye scans out, they are retinal scans and an iris scan. A retinal scan is when the blood vessels in the back of your eye is measured. A iris scan is when they scan the color of your eye itself. The eye scans are being used at airports for security reasons. The iris scan is being used more than the retinal scan. The retinal scan is being used, but it more high tech and used for more security reasons. Eye scans have been determined to be the best biometric scan out there. It does have its drawbacks though, such as it doesn't work as well with contacts and darker