As sensitive and important business are increasingly conducted online, biometrics' day may finally have come. Within the next year, mobile phones and personal computers will have fingerprint scanners as optional equipment, providing convenience as well as increased security. Passwords can be easily stolen. Fingerprints can't.
That's why government benefits such as welfare payments are increasingly being secured with biometrics, and why the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service relies on handprint scans to help some 45,000 frequent international travelers re-enter the country speedily at six major airports without a passport check.
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