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Canada Customs and Revenue Agency JFK Airport, New York Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands United Nations, Pakistan Heathrow Airport, U.K. Lancaster County Prison, Pennsylvania Pentagon Officer's Athletic Club, Washington, D.C. Narita Airport, Japan Federal Aviation Authority, Washington, D.C. King Abdul Aziz Airport, Saudi Arabia New Egypt Schools, New Jersey Border Control, United Arab Emirates City Hospital of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria University of South Alabama Hospitals, Alabama Eagleville Hospital, Pennsylvania

Canada Customs and Revenue Agency

Canada Customs and Revenue Agency (CCRA) and Citizenship and Immigration Canada launched a pilot program called CANPASS-Air in September 2002 for the Canadian border. Iris recognition helps Canadian officials streamline airport operations while maintaining a safe and secure border. Iris recognition authenticates pre-approved, low-risk travelers who are citizens or permanent residents of the United States and Canada and clears them through "express lane" customs and immigration.

CANPASS-Air will be operational at Pearson International Airport in Toronto and Vancouver International Airport in early 2003. Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa and Winnipeg airports are planned for a subsequent rollout in Canada.

The hardware and software for CANPASS-Air is Iridian Proof Positive-certified, ensuring that the highest quality standards are met. All Iridian-certified iris recognition cameras meet US and international eye safety standards. Proof Positive-certification also guarantees scalability and full hardware and software interoperability, giving CCRA the option to extend the system with additional Proof Positive cameras or software in the future.

For more information and updates visit CCRA's web site at:
http://www.ccra-adrc.gc.ca/newsroom/factsheets/2002/sep/canpass-e.html

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JFK Airport, New York

A door to the tarmac of JFK Airport at Terminal 4, the international arrivals hall, was announced secured by the accuracy of iris recognition in November 2002. At the time of the announcement, 300 of the airport's 13,000 employees had already enrolled in a voluntary test program to prevent employee security breaches.

To proceed through the door to the tarmac at Terminal 4 the employee's identification card must match a live read of the person's iris. If a card is presented, but the iris does not match the IrisCode® record for that person, the door to the tarmac will not open. In addition, physical security is dispatched to interview the individual and determine next steps, which may involve local authorities.

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Schiphol Airport, The Netherlands

Starting in October, 2001, passengers in Schiphol Airport literally use their iris as their passport when their border control application performs a one-to-one verification between their "live" IrisCode® template and the one previously enrolled on their Privium smart card. Upon approval by the system, the individual is given rapid admission into or out of the country. In addition to an IrisCode template, the smart card contains passport data.

Today, several thousand European Union (EU) passengers use iris recognition each day to bypass lengthy immigration and border control lines when entering or exiting the Netherlands. Border control officials concentrate manual passport examinations on unknown travelers, rather than "knowns" whose background checks reveal no security concerns. In the first three months of the program alone, over 30,000 transactions took place without any reported inaccuracies.

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United Nations, Pakistan

The first anonymous enrollment application was debuted in October 2002 when the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) began using iris recognition to enroll the IrisCode® template of Afghan refugees in Peshawar, Pakistan. As a part of this UN repatriation process, refugees are entitled to a one-time assistance package of travel funds and basic supplies. The system performs one-to-all identification fraud detection to ensure the refugee has not already been issued aid, thereby directing aid equitably to the entire population.

Since the anonymous enrollment and fraud identification system has gone live, as many as 2,000 Afghani refugees per day have been processed with iris recognition. Numerous refugees who sought assistance multiple times have been detected as "recyclers," and in those cases, the aid has been re-directed to other needy recipients.

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Heathrow Airport, U.K.

In February 2002, Virgin Atlantic and British Airways at Heathrow Airport piloted a border control application. The pilot program was concluded in the fourth quarter of 2002.

On arrival into the United Kingdom, the enrolled passenger could approach an iris recognition kiosk and within seconds a one-to-many search against a database determined whether the patterns of his or her iris matched an IrisCode® record in the system. The system was designed to positively identify "known travelers" so that immigration and customs officials could focus their attention on examining unknown travelers.

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Lancaster County Prison, Pennsylvania

A restricted access application based on iris recognition was installed in Lancaster County Prison in May 2001. Now, iris recognition technology controls physical access to the high security facility. All staff members are required to submit to a background check and enroll in the system to gain access, and over 1,000 regular visitors have also enrolled on a voluntary basis to speed up their admission into the prison.

Iris recognition is also used in a separate application as a means to identify prison inmates at booking and release. There are many documented instances where iris recognition has prevented an inmate from perpetrating identity fraud.

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Pentagon Officer's Athletic Club, Washington, D.C.

Military officers and Pentagon employees use iris recognition in identification mode for a restricted access application that secures the Pentagon's athletic club facilities. In addition to the one-to-all IrisCode® template search to confirm identity, a turnstile allows only one person through the main entrance at a time. A second remote optical unit is currently being installed at an outside entrance so that runners can also be authenticated.

The system was integrated into a legacy card membership and accounting system. Iris recognition has successfully ensured that membership cards cannot be "loaned" for use by non-paying individuals who are not members of the club.

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Narita Airport, Japan

In January 2003 Japan Airlines started a pilot program for simplified passenger travel at Narita Airport in Japan. The pilot is funded by the Japanese government and has enrolled 1,000 people in total for the study. The passenger service concept includes the use of a smart card with iris recognition for contact-less identification and to receive a ticket at check-in, pass through a security gate, and pass through the boarding gate. Four gates in all are enabled.

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Federal Aviation Authority, Washington, D.C.

In May 2002, an information technology security application based on iris recognition was launched at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The Secure Executive Toolset (SET) was designed to strengthen system security, and is the first of its kind at the FAA. Airway Facilities Services executives are now able to use iris recognition authentication services to confirm identity and access the FAA Intranet to share data, access sensitive information, collaborate and use other enterprise level capabilities in program planning, workflow automation and knowledge management.

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King Abdul Aziz Airport, Saudi Arabia

In February 2002 iris recognition for border control was deployed at King Abdul Aziz Airport to help track the flow of Muslim pilgrims into Saudi Arabia for the Hajj season of worship. 20,000 pilgrims passing through Passport Control were randomly selected to participate in a trial. Each of the selected pilgrims was enrolled and provided with a unique identifier. Of the 20,000 there were only 17 false rejections (which were subsequently corrected) and no false matches.

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New Egypt Schools, New Jersey

In early 2003, iris recognition cameras were installed in three schools in the school district of Plumsted, NJ in an innovative program designed to improve school safety overall. New safety systems have been developed using the unparalleled accuracy of iris recognition technology to restrict access to the buildings and to establish the identity of both school employees and parents.

The New Egypt Elementary School, Middle School and High School in Plumsted, NJ now use iris recognition to control who is admitted to the building after doors are locked at 9:00 am. School employees who are enrolled in the system have instant access when they glance at an iris recognition camera and the security software locates their unique iris image which has been previously stored in a database. Parents and other caregivers can also be enrolled in the system to streamline the process of picking up a child for early dismissal. The parent can confirm that they are authorized to retrieve the child by glancing into a camera located in the administration office.

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Border Control, United Arab Emirates

The General Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police in the United Arab Emirates have installed iris recognition at land, sea and air border points. The project, which started in August 2001, involves the enrollment of inmates and expellees' irises from geographically distributed deportation centers throughout the UAE into a central iris database at the General Directorate of Abu Dhabi Police. A real-time, one-to-all, iris check of arriving passengers with new visit or work visas at any UAE border point will reveal if the person had been expelled from the country.

The number of searches carried out to date has exceeded 300,000 searches from land, sea and air border points, with a sustained real-time response reported by all sites on a 24x7 basis. The number of searches is expected to rise considerably in the next few months as the authorities will require more traveler categories to submit for an iris recognition at all UAE border entry points. The total number of enrolled IrisCode® templates of expelled persons has exceeded 200,000 records, the largest expellee IrisCode template database in the world. The system has already stopped more than 650 persons attempting to re-enter the country using passports with different names, some of whom had attempted to re-enter the country on the same day that they were expelled on.

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City Hospital of Bad Reichenhall, Bavaria

In November 2002 an infant station in the City Hospital of Bad Reichenhall in Bavaria, Germany installed iris recognition to secure access and prevent baby abductions. This is the first time the technology has been used for infant protection, as it is more traditionally associated with border control and simplified passenger travel in airports.

The secure entry system now permits only authorized people to gain access to the infant station. Authorized individuals include the mothers, nurses or doctors. These individuals enroll their iris in the system by glancing at an iris-recognition camera. In seconds, a unique IrisCode® template is generated that will later be matched against "live" samples of the iris whenever that person wants to enter the room. Once the child is released from the infant station, the mother's IrisCode® data is removed from the system and they are no longer allowed access.

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University of South Alabama Hospitals, Alabama

An innovative iris recognition-enabled medical records management solution was launched at University of South Alabama (USA) Hospitals in Mobile, AL in July 2002. Iris authentication replaces user ID and password access to the CARLOS (Computer Aided Record Location and Deficiency Systems) systems at the three USA Hospitals, including Women's and Children's, Medical Center and Knollwood.

With iris recognition technology, only clinicians with appropriate access privileges are granted permission to view information and associated reports. The new system keeps sensitive clinical information secured from inappropriate access. These improvements are part of the University of South Alabama's strategy for compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Eagleville Hospital, Pennsylvania

Eagleville Hospital, Eagleville, PA installed its Politec Authentication Security Suite (PASS) in March 2002 using iris recognition biometric technology to strengthen system security in preparation for the data privacy and computer security requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

The PASS system is a complete, robust security solution that is used to secure, manage and control access to electronic information and can also be used to secure physical environments. This flexible system enables assignment and administration of roles, responsibilities, policies and procedures for each individual user from a central location. Iris recognition is used to authenticate their identity, dramatically improving on password and PIN-based information technology security.

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