Friday, October 21, 2011

US State Department: Advanced Multi-Modal Biometrics initiative will have a large impact

US State Department looks to biometrics for border security (Government Computer News)
“We are putting lots of rigor and resources into identifying and authenticating who enters the country, but then we don’t seem to care if or when they leave,” he said. The U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology “was chartered after 9/11 to do that, but nearly 10 years on we still don’t do it.”
That's about to change.