Once again, privacy concerns float to the service. This time in Australia, following their efforts to begin biometric identification. The desire to control, standardize, and manage the use of the biometrics is very pronounced in order to avoid 'scope creep', or the chance that the information on a citizen can be used in other ways not originally intended when first capturing the information.
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October 20, 2004
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Posted by: Biometric Time Clock | August 15, 2009 at 07:23 PM
Our privacy is vital to the success of future deployment of ID schemes, government should focus on this specific point, we are all worried, but big brother will be watching 24/7...
R. Bencheikh
http://www.thebiometrix.com
Posted by: R Bencheikh | June 28, 2005 at 07:22 PM