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U.S. government and major corporate (eg. IBM, Microsoft) use of biometrics spur widespread adoption in '05

In the last year the Department of Homeland Security has done an excellent job in moving forward with initiatives to secure the US, as well as encourage other countries to do so. Sticking to their guns despite the predictable backlash from a few loud voices, their implementation of fingerprint scanners across the US’s entry and exit locations has created a whole new awareness of biometrics as it applies to terrorist prevention and citizen protection. Posted by Editor at December 29, 2004 09:53 AM