Natural Networks will provide 32 year-long placements in green network skills such as species identification, biological recording and habitat conservation techniques.

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The new measures now formally require anyone signing agreements to access the internet, fixed-line telephone and mobile devices to provide network service operators with "genuine identification information", known as real-name registration, Xinhua reports.

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Apple recently made headlines by acquiring AuthenTec, a network and cloud security company with fingerprint identification technology.

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America's C4ISR network provides everything from target detection and identification to navigational information.

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" But Don Flynn, director of the Migrants' Rights Network, likened it to a private school entry exam, "which requires complete identification with elite views of British history and culture.

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