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To: Ed Flynn who wrote (9774)	8/4/1998 4:28:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

Touchviews on horseback? According to Newsbytes of July 31, 1998, the INS is test-riding 30 notebook PCs with fingerprint ID peripherals in the Arizona desert. Here's how it works: "Border Patrol agents run a fingerprint identification system that requires no training because they already use such a system on desktop PCs . . . Each notebook has a fingerprint capture peripheral device. "Agents can search up to 2 million records through Live-ID, automated fingerprint ID software from Cogent Systems Inc. of Alhambra, Calif., and an Oracle 7 Release 7.3 relational database. [I understand IDX is supplying forensic-level Touchviews to Cogent for use with Cogent software; presumably this is what is happening here.] "Live-ID can identify up to 1,000 unique points on a fingerprint per second and run a pattern-recognition algorithm . . . . The system shows the probability percentile of an undocumented border crosser's fingerprint matching a database record. "The notebook PCs connect to cellular telephone and have token-ring network cards . . . ." All they need, I think, is GPS coordinates also transmitted to have a complete system. Also: This test is running through November on a $500,000 budget, and the total budget available for this project (through 2000) is $6 million. Presumably IDX will get only a small fraction of this sum. We can also consider it a pilot for use with police cars.