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Big Bio may be watching YOU
June 19, 2007

Source: Canada Gazette
Around the world, biometric identifiers are used at airports and border crossings in machine-readable documents such as passports and driver’s licences. Police and security services rely on digitized data banks of fingerprints in watch lists and companies access them for checks on prospective employees. Increasingly, people are required to present a biometric to enter buildings, access a laptop or database, get a library book or claim a meal. Whether all this is good or bad is the subject of intense debate. Those most fearful of biometric technologies warn they are accelerating the trend toward a surveillance society that gained momentum after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Advocates respond biometrics will enhance security, help governments deliver improved services more efficiently and make it easier for citizens to navigate the online world of e-commerce and e-government. [more]


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