Iris scans to protect your photos

[Dangleman]

Don't know if this has been posted yet...

"A patent for technology which will digitally "watermark" the image with the details of the iris of the photographer has been filed by camera giant Canon."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7251621.stm

This will help solve no end of problems, now and in the near future with the recent proposed 'orphan images' copyright thingyjig. Come on boffins, sort it out!

 

[TheNissanMan]

Except when shooting with a wireless/remote

 

[Crazy Dino]

look at the date of the article..

im not hopeful =P

 

[aligibbs]

What about taking fingerprint? Could include that on a remote then

 

[Dangleman]

look at the date of the article..

im not hopeful =P

Oh aye. I saw the Feb part (and assumed 2010). This was mentioned on EPUK though, so thought it was new.

 

[The Matt]

That will well and truly foil any thief, except for the ones that have mastery of the print screen or copy and paste functions.

 

[DrRusty]

Seems to be a complicated way around the problem.

All you need to do is store the users iris pattern (captured by a separate camera) on the camera and embed that into the images taken.

Set-up the option to have users-profiles just incase different people use the camera.