U.S. Government Workforce To Get Biometric Smart Identifications Cards

The government's new smart-card I.D.s are the latest and, in the United States, the broadest use so far of biometric technology that recognizes a person's physical features. "In the case of the card that'll be produced for federal employees and contractors," he notes, "your fingerprints can be read by scanners. Present the finger at the [machine] reader, and it just scans it and can match it on the card. The smart card is capable of doing that kind of biometric verification."