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Retail giants Costco, Walmart looking into biometric payment
January 26, 2006 – 4:49 PM in Buyer's Guides
According to Sanford Bernstein analyst Emme Kozloff, Costco, Walmart and other retail giants are looking into fingerprint devices to accelerate transactions and reduce costs.
FBI Prepping Comprehensive Biometric Database Network
December 27, 2007 – 4:25 PM
The FBI's fingerprint database is about to become only one small portion of the biometric data they maintain on individuals. Traits identifying the lope of a person's gate will soon be input, and searchable.
Lacie offers biometric hard drives
September 5, 2006 – 5:54 PM
Lacie has upgraded its biometrically-protected SAFE hard drive line with a desktop edition, adding an internal firmware lock to help prevent data from being accessed if the actual hard drive is removed from the chassis.

Articles

Safer Stick: Biometric Flash Disk
April 9, 2004 – 1:00 PM in Build Your Own
USB flash drives are convenient, but their small size makes them prone to theft or getting lost. While Plexuscom's device is just as easily lost or stolen as the next flash drive, a built-in fingerprint sensor ensures that no one other than yourself can access the data.

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