Technology

Biometrics Paves the Way

How do you strike the balance between safe travel and security? Biometric appears to be the way. Biometrics involves technologies that measure and analyze human...

Federal News Network Staff

April 3, 2009 7:16 pm

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How do you strike the balance between safe travel and security? Biometric appears to be the way. Biometrics involves technologies that measure and analyze human body characteristics, such as fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice patterns, facial patterns and hand measurements, for authentication purposes. Use of bio metrics was treated with a great deal of skepticism in then past, but now people hardly notice a fingerprint or eye scan while traveling.