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Reason April 2002 Jeremy Lott	Fake IDs Facial recognition technology is often billed as a tradeoff between privacy and security. A recent American Civil Liberties Union report suggests that it's closer to a no-win deal, resulting in less privacy and precious little added security...
U.S. Banker December 2001 Mark Bruno	Biometrics' Day Has Come Demand for biometrics security technology appears to be rising as a result of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. If production actually does pick up, prices could decline and banks could become major buyers...
Entrepreneur April 2005 Mark Henricks	Thumbs Up Biometrics can keep your employees honest and save you money by eliminating time-and-attendance scams where buddies punch each other in.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	U.S. Government Driving The Advance of Biometric Technologies Technology companies are rapidly developing biometric devices. But privacy policies, the tech backbone to effectively connect the scanners, and a market beyond the U.S. government, are lagging.
CFO October 15, 2002 Russ Banham	The Eyes Have It Concerned about security, companies may soon rely on a wide range of biometrics. Turns out you're even more special than you thought.
InternetNews November 30, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	ACLU Issues Warning on RFID Passports The American Civil Liberties Union claims the U.S. government is rushing the rollout of insecure, RFID-enabled passports in hopes of creating a de facto global identification standard.
PC World January 2002 Anne Kandra	National Security vs. Online Privacy The new antiterrorism law steps up electronic surveillance of the Internet...
Salon.com September 14, 2001 Katharine Mieszkowski	Send in the online spooks? In the aftermath of terrorism, civil libertarians are running for cover. But are they protesting too much?
National Defense April 2010 Stew Magnuson	Face, Iris and Fingerprint Biometrics Good Enough for Now, Says White House Staffer Federal agencies that collect biometric data to screen individuals should concentrate their efforts on fingerprints, faces and irises, and perfect the collection of those technologies first.
National Defense January 2009 Myra S. Gray	Defense Dept. 'Institutionalizing' Use of Biometrics Biometrics use crosses all services. The Army is using biometrics to assist in identifying detainees in war zones
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Joshua J. Romero	Fast Start for World's Biggest Biometrics ID Project In India, a few million people have been registered for a biometric database so far - only a billion left to go.
IEEE Spectrum January 2006 Erico Guizzo	Loser: Britain's Identity Crisis Proposed biometric ID cards won't prevent fraud or terrorism
National Defense January 2009 Stew Magnuson	Defense Department Under Pressure to Share Biometric Data Within minutes of knocking down the door of a suspected bomb maker in Iraq, U.S. troops can fingerprint everyone they find inside, send the scans across a satellite link, and find out if the subjects are suspected terrorists.
Reason March 2005 Julian Sanchez	No Passport to Privacy Travelers get chipped: In October the Government awarded contracts to produce a new generation of smart passports embedded with biometric RFID chips capable of transmitting data to readers dozens of feet away.
New Architect June 2002 Jerri L. Ledford	The Rolls Royce of Security Are biometrics worth the expense?
U.S. Banker January 2004 Karen Krebsbach	Biometrics Takes Hold Overseas, But Not in U.S. U.S. banks, tied to legacy systems, are reluctant to start over with what many consider untested technology. Then there's the real bugaboo: privacy.
Reason June 2007 Jacob Sullum	'No Fly' No Go In 2010, nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks brought home the importance of keeping suspicious characters off airplanes, the TSA hopes to launch a new system for distinguishing between harmless passengers and terrorists. If all goes well.
Wall Street & Technology April 18, 2008 Melanie Rodier	Financial Institutions Evaluate Biometrics While financial institutions aren't yet ready for consumer-facing biometrics deployments, these technologies are gaining popularity for behind-the-scenes authentication.
Wall Street & Technology June 19, 2008 Cory Levine	Stopping ID Theft With Biometrics Accenture recommends the use of biometric solutions -- specifically, fingerprint readers -- to prevent identity theft.
Popular Mechanics June 30, 2008 Erik Sofge	FBI's Next-Gen ID Databank to Store Face Scans--A Good Idea? Lockheed Martin is building a massive digital warehouse of criminal information, set to bring facial recognition and eye scans to local law enforcement. Privacy advocates say there's reason for law-abiding citizens to worry.
InternetNews October 26, 2005 Tim Gray	E-Passports Will be a Reality in 2006 Americans holding U.S. passports issued after October 2006 will carry embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips inside the documents, according to the U.S. State Department.
National Defense November 2007 Stew Magnuson	Military Identity Technology Leaps Ahead of Policies To help fight the Iraqi insurgency, the Defense Department has pushed biometric collection technologies into the field. But policies on how best to use them are not fully developed.
Bank Technology News September 2010 Rebecca Sausner	The Eyes Have It Jeff Carter is now Chief Business Development and Strategy Officer at Global Rainmakers, a New York-based biometric firm that is convinced its high-speed, low-cost iris scan technology will be everywhere a decade from now.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Privacy Advocates Boycott Facial Recognition Negotiations The U.S. government's efforts to build a code of conduct for facial recognition software creators has hit a major snag.
IEEE Spectrum July 2006 Jain & Pankanti	A Touch of Money Biometric authentication systems for credit cards could put identity thieves out of business. Here's how it would work.
Entrepreneur November 2006 Amanda C. Kooser	Identify Yourself How will increasingly sophisticated biometric technologies affect you?
PC World October 5, 2001 Frank Thorsberg	PC World Poll Highlights Privacy Concerns Our online poll shows most readers are concerned about giving the government more power for online surveillance...
T.H.E. Journal September 2003 Laurence Goldberg	Creating Safer and More Efficient Schools With Biometric Technologies While technology cannot provide a panacea for all school security concerns -- particularly those related to internal threats -- it can be used to enhance security, access control and communications within schools
T.H.E. Journal October 1, 2009 John K. Waters	Reading Between the Lines While Microsoft's Kim Cameron, BanTheScan.com, and others debate the pros and cons of biometric scanning in American schools, a school in Scotland has been testdriving a new system that could mitigate many of the concerns that surround the technology.
National Defense January 2009 Stew Magnuson	Iris Scan Technology Yet to Take Off But where are the customers? So far, the government is driving the development of iris scanners and other biometric technologies, said Jerry Thames, executive advisor to Booz Allen Hamilton.
CIO August 1, 2003 Michael Goldberg	Thumbs Down for Lunch The old "I lost my lunch card" excuse won't work for students in Akron, Ohio, this fall. The Akron school board voted in May to install biometric scanners so middle school and high school students will soon have their fingerprints checked along with their IDs in order to be served lunch in the cafeteria.
IEEE Spectrum June 2012 Eliza Strickland	The Biometric Wallet Palm vein scanners could eventually replace your wallet with your hand
CIO May 15, 2003 Scott Berinato	What's In a Face? Part of the reason biometrics remains a niche field is because the still-improving technology has been oversold.
Fast Company David Lumb	Is Facial Recognition The Next Privacy Battleground? Are we ready for this tech to start linking personal data with our faces without our knowledge?
PC Magazine January 20, 2004 Brett Glass	Biometric Security Someday biometric systems may play an important role in securing all kinds of systems, but they're not foolproof yet.
National Defense September 2011 Grace V. Jean	Here's Looking At You: Iris Recognition on the Move Unlike fingerprints and other biometrics, the iris remains largely immutable to physical changes caused by normal aging processes and environmental factors.
InternetNews May 21, 2004 Roy Mark	Democrats Call for Privacy Czar A new bill would mandate federal privacy officer to balance civil liberties with homeland security concerns.
Bank Systems & Technology June 24, 2008 Paula Damiano	Biometrics: The End of Authentication as We Know It? Biometrics -- the science of identifying individuals by their unique physical traits -- always has been cutting-edge technology. But practical for the banking industry? Not so much.
National Defense June 2005 Roxana Tiron	Biometrics Systems Help Strengthen Border Security in Persian Gulf Nation Having to deal with a daily onslaught of immigrants and visitors, the United Arab Emirates has had to resort to advanced technology to strengthen its border control and to weed out potential terrorists.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 Ben Ames	Navy looks to Identix to push research in facial recognition Company researchers seek to further the state-of-the-art in facial- and image-recognition technologies for human identification, justify new facial-recognition applications for antiterrorism, and develop a human-identity system for the U.S. military.
PC World September 12, 2001 Tom Spring & Frank Thorsberg	Will Attack Hurt Net Privacy? Privacy advocates urge government to balance security needs and civil liberties...
IEEE Spectrum March 2012 Joshua J. Romero	India's Big Bet on Identity The world's largest biometric authentication system reaches its first major milestone, but lots of challenges remain
CIO May 15, 2003 Juan Carlos Perez	Reality Unlike TV Biometrics -- the use of IT to identify people using fingerprints, voice, face and hand geometry -- has its limitations. The applications aren't 100 percent accurate, for starters. And technology standards and concerns about privacy also are potential limitations. But it is improving.
InternetNews December 3, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	EPassports Could Have Blocking Mechanism Late last week, the ACLU accused the U.S. government of rushing the rollout of insecure, RFID-enabled passports in hopes of creating a de facto global identification standard that could be used for surveillance.
CIO November 1, 2003 Scott Berinato	Face Recognition Hype Is Over Since 9/11, few counterterrorism technologies have been hyped more than face recognition. Recently, though, reality interrupted the hype when two public pilot projects of the technology ended in failure.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 Willie D. Jones	Blood Test New biometric sensors at ATMs and airports use infrared light to create a digital map of the blood vessels inside a person's hand.
InternetNews March 2, 2007 Roy Mark	REAL ID Deadline Evaporates Under Pressure The Department of Homeland Security postpones implementation of controversial law mandating standardized state driver's licenses linked in databases.
Wall Street & Technology March 26, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	Biometrics Add Security in Insecure Times Technologies like voice-recognition and fingerprint authentication can add a layer of security while improving customer service and cutting costs.
BusinessWeek August 8, 2005	Big Brother Britain? The Blair Administration's proposal for biometric ID cards looked like a goner - until the July 7 attacks in London. But critics still worry about their intrusiveness.
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Michael Singer	'Real ID' Under Fire States and privacy groups mull a legal fight against a bill requiring national IDs citing the high cost and risk of identity theft.