Appropriately, cost, culture and the mechanics of a possible future system are addressed.
But because biometric enrollment without biometric verification is a half-measure, the thing that really caught my eye was the part about how the verification end of a theoretical future biometric ID system might work.
Should a biometric ID card become a reality, Haag envisions a new micro-market emerging, of companies creating portable employee-verification systems that would offer their services to other businesses. "Something along the lines of...these trucks driving around now that do all the shredding that guarantee all of your sensitive documents will be 100% shredded," he says. "I think it would be cost-prohibitive for small business to acquire and maintain the hardware and the software necessary to do it themselves."Haag's vision of mobile verification is interesting. We've touched on two other possibilities, neither of which depends strictly upon a national system, in the past in:
The Post Office, Identity Assurance & Biometrics
ID Entrepreneurs: Criminal Background Checks
If you only have time for one of the two, the Post Office one is the way to go.
