Monday, September 26, 2011

Why Facial Recognition Time and Attendance?

Meant to improve hygiene, security (Green Bay Press Gazette)
"No worry about Big Brother watching you because everything is a digital template, not an actual image of the individual," he said. "FaceIN is touchless and hygienic. You just simply look at it. The bulk of our business is in health care business, food services, manufacturing, government and retail."
FaceIN product manager, Tony Burks, gets two very good points across in this brief quote.

Different modalities are suited to different applications and environments.

Template-only biometric time-and-attendance systems pose no privacy concerns that don't already exist in the employer/employee relationship.