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To: MikeH who wrote (693)	8/3/1999 5:24:00 PM
From: Frederic Conrad	Respond to of 10167

The various Departments of Motor Vehicles located throughout the country have been using this technology for several years to verify identities. These devices are also useful tools for processing suspects in criminal investigations/prosecutions. I suppose the next technological leap will be actual identity chips that are implanted at birth. There was a time when such technology was the stuff of science fiction and conspiracy theories.

To: MikeH who wrote (693)	8/3/1999 5:39:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10167

This is probably a waste of bandwith, but here goes: Your worries are off-base. Rather than the creation of some massive all-citizen data base (similar to the FBI criminal fingerprint database), driver's licenses and commercial biometric companies are only interested in verifying you are who you claim to be. In other words, they can't identify who you are on these systems. You have to identify yourself, and the biometric verifies you are telling the truth. The technologies between a one:many search (like the FBI does) and a one:one match are entirely different and incompatible.