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The notion of a cashless economy facilitated by databanks of digitized body parts is still kind of far out. But then, so are most things about Cross Match. The company was founded in 1996 by Scott, a medical ultrasound specialist, and two fellow engineers turned garage inventors, Jim Davis, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

The New Zealand--born engineer isn't known as the Mad Kiwi for nothing. But his colleagues and financial backers believe in him. Cross Match, a privately held company, plans to put Scott's device, called the Authorizer, into production sometime this fall, charging $10 or so a copy. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

Much bigger deals are in the works, and the competition will be fierce. Among the leading contenders: Lockheed Martin, Accenture and Computer Sciences Corp. By Dec. 31, CBP is required by law to fingerprint all visitors with visas at the 50 busiest land crossings along the Canadian and Mexican borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

Facial-recognition biometric technology will also come into the mix this year. From Oct. 26, visitors from the 27 so-called visa-waiver nations--most of Europe, plus Australia, Japan, Singapore and Brunei--will be required to present passports embedded with machine-readable bar codes containing a facial biometric, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

Eventually, he believes, pocket biometric devices will replace credit and ATM cards and will even dispense with notaries public and those time-consuming face-to-face real-estate closings. Personal and biometric data, says Scott, would be transmitted via cell phone to a cybervault maintained by a financial-service company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Brother Inc. | 8/5/2008 | See Source »

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