Increasingly biometric technology Action

Elias Roman places his fingers on a device solid analysis on the new arrivals opened Statue of Liberty.
Kevin Daley, National Park Service via AP

It is very easy, visitors Taiwanese Yu-Sheng Lee, 26, said after a pocket compact. “I think that is good. I have no reason to worry about a key or similar”.

Like almost all other tourists on the statue that day, it was Lee’s first experience with biometrics - the identification of one, based on personal characteristics such as fingerprints, face or characteristics of the iris pattern.

While the technology is not new, after years of use for accessing business and military settings, it is now creeping into everyday life. During the next few years, people who are not currently with the technology are invited to him in everything that is going on this trip from settings to financial transactions.

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