--- From: "Richard M. Smith" <rmsat_private> To: "'Declan McCullagh'" <declanat_private> Subject: Is the State of Georgia going to fingerprint all drivers? Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:07:12 -0500 Hi Declan, If I am reading today's press release from Viisage correctly, the State or Georgia plans to fingerprint everyone in the state who applies for a drivers licenses. I thought that only criminals and people who work in high security jobs got fingerprinted. Is Georgia the first state to do this kind of thing? Richard http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021118/nem040_1.html Viisage Awarded Digital Driver's License Contract by State of Georgia LITTLETON, Mass., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Viisage Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: VISG - News), the leader in facial recognition biometrics and secure identification systems, announced today that the company has been awarded a contract from the state of Georgia to design, develop and implement a new digital driver's license program. The value of the total six- year contract is approximately $20 million. ... Viisage will implement an in-state, central card production solution that will cost effectively allow tight management of the production and issuance of highly secure drivers' credentials using 3M's Confirm(TM) security overlay. Central production will also afford the DMVS tighter control of the storing, analysis and retrieval of information including scanned application forms, portrait images, signature images, fingerprints and data associated with each driver's record. .... Viisage has partnered with SAGEM Morpho to create the new fingerprint biometric solution, which will allow the rapid searching of any fingerprint against the DMVS fingerprint database. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ Recent CNET News.com articles: http://news.search.com/search?q=declan -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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