30,000 passenger screeners by November of 2003 and more than 22,000 baggage screeners by next year (Dobbin, 2002).
The issue of whether or not Americans will need to accept some type of ôtrade offö between the use of biometric technologies that can be valuable in preventing terrorism and intervening to identify terrorists and others (including those criminal who engage in a crime known as identity fraud) and the potential invasion of privacy and civil rights that the technologies may facilitate is therefore important. Although a properly implemented biometric security system can be an effective part of an access control system, the system raises a serious question. Can biometric Technology be utilized as a too
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