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Requests for Homeland Security biometric checks

Monday, October 11, 2004 in News

Paul McHale, assistant secretary of defense for the Homeland Security agency, spoke at a conference called “Biometric Technology for Homeland Security: What’s the Art of the Possible?”.

McHale is a firm believer that biometrics can do something more for the safety of the US than what we just have now. The technology should be used to screen the crew of cargo ships and employees of plants that build weapons for use by the military.

Read the article - Security chief asks for biometric help. Technology needed to protect nation from attack, he says. [end] 

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