Spies Want to Scan Your Iris From Afar | Danger Room from Wired.com

Spies Want to Scan Your Iris From Afar | Danger Room from Wired.com: "The new uber-geek arm of American spy agencies, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, is looking to change that. Researchers there want to do iris and face-scans from far away, and 'under uncontrolled acquisition conditions.' So they're launching a new project, 'Biometrics Exploitation Science and Technology' (BEST) to find new ways to get this face and eye data, even when the subject is moving and the lighting is all wrong. 'The minimum objective is to exceed by a factor of three what is commercially available today, with recognition performance similar to that achieved with the cooperative or conditioned individual under controlled acquisition,' a recent announcement to industry notes."