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Friday, September 27, 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61559-2002Sep24.html Government's Use of Biometrics Security Technology Worries Some Privacy Activists David McGuire, washingtonpost.com Staff Writer It's been two years now but House Majority Leader Dick Armey is still steamed about Super Bowl XXXV, and it's not because he's a Giants fan. As Armey strolled into Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, on his way to watch the Baltimore Ravens trounce New York, the Texas Republican unwittingly entered a virtual police line-up alongside thousands of other football fans. Law enforcement officials used technology developed by a Massachusetts company called Viisage Technology Inc. to scan faces in the throng, looking for any wanted criminals who may have been in attendance. Although they didn't know it, the football fans took part in one of the largest-ever field tests of face-recognition technology, one of the newest developments in the budding field of biometric security....
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