Many stories have been coming out of the EU lately, mainly to discuss the value that biometrics may or may not offer. They seem to be in the stage of wonderment that the US will come to shortly as our own passports begin showing signs of fingerprints and iris.
On Monday, Martin Walshe, the chairman of the European Biometrics Forum, told the inaugural EU Presidency Summit on Biometrics that the emerging technology can enhance the lives of citizens. He acknowledged, however, European concerns about data protection and privacy.
Biometrics benefits individuals: expert.
This article gives me an image of countries posing as some cartoonish children's superheroes, clinking snazzy rings together in order to change into the Mighty Morphin Terrorist Fighters!
British police will almost certainly be given access in the near future to US intelligence databases containing DNA samples, fingerprints and digital images of thousands of foreign nationals seized around the world by the US as terror suspects.
Biometrics - great hope for world security or triumph for Big Brother?
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Posted by: Biometric Time Clock | August 15, 2009 at 07:50 PM