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Story: Adopting biometrics? Then keep your hands dirty

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ZDnet,
Additional comment on subject of "clean hands". The "IT" biometrics market that you are addressing is still in a nascent stage. When the Federal Government releases its new Biometric Standards for "IT applications" then you will see the "IT" biometric market accelerate. These new standards are planned to be developed to make it possible for secure transactions and communications between the Federal Government and its suppliers / vendors. We are at least 1 year away from these Federal "IT" biometric standards. The real vibrant and explosive market for biometrics currently is the Govenment Forensic ID Market for passports, and visas, etc. It is in this area that Identix has the patented moisture discrimination technology. You can expect this moisture discrimination technology along with "liveness" technology to migrate to the computer "IT" and physical access biometric markets when they have interoperable standards in place. President Bush has recently penned the letter that will mandate these standards. You can find his "electronic and information security" mandate on the Whitehouse.gov website.

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