Biometric Systems

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to allow students
to get their meals, and in a Maryland day care center to ensure that the right
person picks up the right child. In Los Angeles, they are using fingerprints to
stop welfare fraud. And they're also being used by frequent business travellers
for rapid transit through immigration and customs in Holland, and now at JFK and
Newark airports in the United States. It could also be used to simply prevent
one employee from "punching in" for some one else, or to prevent someone from
opening up an account at a bank using a false name. Then there is also the
security access market, access to computer databases, to premises and a variety
of other areas.
The Sentry program made by Fingerprint Technologies uses several devices
at once. The system first prompts for a user name and password. Then they must
have their fingerprint scan match what is on record. They can also use a video
camera for real time video to capture photographs which can be incorporated into
the data ...

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