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Biometrics

Are we sleepwalking into a surveillance society?

Geoffrey Hunt | 27 April 2010 |

tags: biometrics, privacy

Although it is undoubtedly useful, personal identity technology could potentially lend itself to the gradual erosion of democracy and support for an authoritarian, protective state.

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