In February India's census authority completed a year-long effort of tallying and biometrically registering its 1.2 billion residents.

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Ghana just broke a world record by biometrically registering and verifying 13 million people in just 48 hours.

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For example, he is now negotiating with the Indian government to have a state stored value card that is biometrically identified.

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With the optional Fingerprint Reader, passwords are biometrically stored.

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