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FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES - WROCLAW MARCH 2006
Nearly every major credit card supplier, such as VISA and Mastercard, are developing biometrics as a means to reduce fraud and help prevent stolen identity. Some automotive manufacturers already offer biometrics for added security and convenience on vehicles. In Illinois Inmates must submit to retinal scanning, coming and going from jail to court appearances. A French primary school has introduced an iris scanning system with the capacity to scan children as they selected items at the school canteen and electronically debited their account. In the private sector, Lotus employees pass through a hand-geometry scanner to pick up their children from in-house day care. Coca-Cola is using hand geometry at the time clock to prevent workers from "buddy punching" a late colleague's time card. Microsoft has announced plans to use a fingerprint-based biometric ID system with their new Windows software. Even technical surveillance-related responses to September 11 have been largely based on biometrics. CCTV cameras in public places have been enhanced – as in Newham, south London - with facial recognition capacities.Iris-scan at airports- now installed at Schipol, Amsterdam - is being implemented elsewhere in Europe and North America as well.The concept of biometric passports- in which the digital image of a person's face is stored in a microchip - had gathered steam.

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