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Monday, December 17, 2001
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52300-2001Dec16.html National ID Card Gaining Support - A smart card with a fingerprint could link a person to sensitive personal data. By Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Jonathan Krim, Washington Post Staff Writers Navy Petty Officer Wellington Jimenez walked into the identification room at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn one day recently and gave his name, rank and fingerprint. In return, he got a token of the future: a plastic ID card embedded with a computer chip. The card -- with two photos, two bar codes, a magnetic stripe and the etched gold chip -- looks like a driver's license on steroids. More than 120,000 active duty military personnel, selected reserves, Defense Department civilians and some contractors have received the cards in recent months.About 4 million are to be issuedover the next two years....
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