Airports in the U.K. and other European countries are using a biometric system that allows faster passage for registered travelers.
In 60 Brazilian cities, voters used their thumbs instead of ballots on a newly launched biometric system, where voters scan their fingers to log in and vote.
Voting was extended into Saturday in areas where election materials arrived late or glitches with a new biometric identification system caused delays.
This lab, like most others, is barred with a biometric entry system on which only CS students are registered and no one else can enter.
On Thursday, electoral commission head Kwadwo Afari-Gyan told the BBC that the biometric fingerprinting system had been extensively tested over two months and again earlier this week, when security personnel voted.
At night and on weekends, when its 75 young customers weren't around, the center installed new chairs, desks, floors, fixtures and a biometric security system that allows parents in the door only after they place a finger on a sensor.
The camp's re-engineering awards went to a group that developed a technique to alter the ID numbers on Global System for Mobile Communications cell phones and to another team that found a way to defeat a biometric fingerprint scanning system.
This election marked the first time the nation of 25 million has used the new biometric voter identification system.
It said it had now found irregularities such as cases of over voting and instances when people not registered by the new biometric finger-printing system were able to vote.
The UK will move towards an integrated electronic border security system, linking biometric passports and visas with electronic checks on entry and exit, helping to track and intercept terrorists and criminals and to stop illegal immigration.
Ford's prototype system aims to lessen distraction by taking readouts from biometric sensors and combining the data with information from the car, including speed, steering-wheel angle, and data from radar sensors or cameras used in blind-spot obstacle detection or cruise control.
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As an alternative to a biometric card, senators may move to strengthen the E-Verify system by, for example, requiring new hires to answer questions about previous addresses or other details, a person familiar with the Senate group's thinking said.
Since the system is designed to determine the legal status of workers based on names, Social Security numbers and potentially personal biometric identifiers of every working age adult in America, worries about the system becoming a tool for ever-expanding federal purposes are legitimate.
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Their automated system replicates the functions normally performed by customs and immigration officials, and uses biometric face recognition and ePassport RFID registration to process trusted travelers much more rapidly and efficiently than standing in line to be personally checked, especially during peak travel times.
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