Report Recommends Use of High Tech Identity Techniques
Government scientists are recommending a combination of facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technologies for identity documents to be issued to foreigners.
The standards, which were Congressionally mandated as part of the U.S.A. Patriot Act and a border security act, would be used in all documents issued to foreigners by the State Department and the Immigration and Naturalization Service, including green cards, student visas and border crossing cards.The scientists' report, which has been submitted to Congress, is the first step in instituting body-recognition technology, known as biometrics, as a governmental tool on a wide basis....
The technologies will be used to deny entry to foreign nationals who have a criminal record or who appear on government watch lists.
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