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Some of that will come from agencies such as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which recently began fingerprinting all visitors arriving at airports and seaports and traveling on visas--essentially, citizens of developing countries. CBP chose Cross Match fingerprint scanners for deployment at its checkpoints in 115 U.S. airports and 14 seaports, in a contract initially worth just $1.8 million...
...evolve from the biometrics industry, which, after years of promise, is on the verge of rapid growth as government-mandated security plans become operational. With the threat of terrorism now a long-term concern, biometric-identification systems are blossoming around the world. To stop bad guys at the border, for instance, the U.S. is embarking on a program called U.S.-VISIT, for U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, which was mandated by Congress in 2002. Biometric technologies are the linchpins of the new system, expected to cost $10 billion over the next decade. The technology is not just...
...which a computer will compare with a digital photo taken upon entry. Some foreign governments have already made the transition. Italy has rolled out an identity card with a fingerprint and facial biometric. A number of countries, notably Saudi Arabia, are looking at biometrics for national-identity cards and border control. Britain's passport service is testing a facial-recognition and fingerprint-biometric program...
...threat of violence, though in recent weeks, Xinjiang officials have simultaneously asserted that the situation in the province was under control. Counter terrorism experts generally say the East Turkestan Islamic Movement boasts no more than 40 fighters under active training, most likely in the tribal areas of Pakistan that border Afghanistan, where they allegedly have ties to groups directly linked to al-Qaeda...
Accounts of the attack were still conflicting on Monday afternoon, but according to official Chinese media reports, two unidentified men drove vehicles - one of which may have been a dump truck - into a squad of border police conducting morning exercises. After explosions that may have been caused by grenades or bombs attached to the vehicles, the two men reportedly started attacking the surviving soldiers with knives before being subdued and arrested. Authorities said the number of dead and wounded was still being confirmed...