Using iris scans to unlock hotel rooms
Keycards at hotels are so 2003. The Nine Zero hotel in Boston just installed a new system which uses iris scans to unlock room doors. Yeah, it means you don't have to worry about ever losing your room key, but the downside is that the hotel now has a copy of your iris scan in their database. Maybe not a big deal now, but if iris-scanning ever catches on as a more widespread standard for authentication you're gonna have to really hope that the hotel either deletes that file after you check out or that the take some basic steps to make sure it isn't ever stolen or abused. Especially because if it gets swiped you don't have to get your irises replaced (do we have to even have to bring up Demolition Man?).
[Via We Make Money Not Art]
