Clean Your Ears, Because Airport Security Might Soon Be Scanning Them [Security]

New research says your ears are like snowflakes-completely unique on this planet. That is neat! But in addition means you have got two giant finger prints on the side of your face, and airport security wants a look.

A team at the University of Southampton hopes that ear scanning, unlike facial biometrics, will allow security teams to track travelers as they age-bypassing the wrinkles and general facial lumpiness we all acquire with time. ” Your ears…age very gracefully. They grow proportionally larger and your lobe gets slightly more elongated, but otherwise your ears are fully formed from birth,” explains the team’s leader. An ear-based scanning system would only require two cameras that could pics as you handed over your passport-letting a computer do anything else of the work. [ Telegraph ]

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