One example: The Government Printing Office awarded $373,000 in contracts to four manufacturers to design a new generation U.S. passport. An embedded computer chip will store passport data as well as a digitized photograph of a traveler’s face, among other proposed biometrics-based data.
A second example: The Washington State Department of Corrections uses biometrics (IR Recognition Systems, Carmel, Ind.) to help track and supervise offenders in more than 70 kiosks located in field offices statewide, and at most community outstations.