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US Expands Airport Biometric Data Collection

Posted by kdawson on from the wear-gloves dept.

athloi sends word of an expansion of the US-VISIT program that now requires two fingerprints from foreign visitors arriving at scores of airports. Beginning later this year the US will be testing a system that collects 10 digital fingerprints, at 10 major points of entry. A US Homeland Security director assured EU officials that the program would operate under strict privacy rules. But he noted that the FBI and CIA will have access to the biometric data, which over time may expand beyond fingerprints.

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  1. Retarded Much? by Das+Auge · · Score: 0, Troll

    I love how morons like you can't interpret numbers.

    Perhaps the reason that the percentage (*hint*, *hint*) is so low compared to other countries is that, in a monetary sense, we have a lot more going on than most of the other countries listed. Go look up the absolute money taken in plus the import/export of each country.

    After you do the math, you'll learn that you were talking out of your ass.