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Biometrics: Analysis and Implications Criterion A: Describing the Issue Throughout history, people have used different systems of identity verification, ranging from visual body characteristics, or simple facial qualities. However, Biometrics provide a new field of advanced identity verification, as it grants techniques from the popular fingerprint, to the accurate iris and the interesting retina scanning. It has been recorded that even in antique times, people have used biometric identity verification to enhance duties (e.g., administration and provision of food)2. Biometrics have the ability to positively identify or authenticate an individual, thereby preventing a host of identity-related fraud issues, especially of concern now in an increasingly on-line world. But biometrics also have the ability to track individuals and their transactions, and to be used as a universal identifier which can associate or link various sources of personal information to an individual -- in either case, without their consent3. ATM's with the ability to...

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