There now is various business, security industry and government actions aimed at standardizing state and Federal identification systems for enhanced national security and the prevention of terrorism.
The actions will influence the evolution of access control and identification cards and badges used by most businesses.
Just last month, for example, President Bush signed into law a border security measure that, among other things, requires travel documents to contain machine-readable data such as fingerprints.
Earlier this spring, the Security Industry Association (SIA), the trade association of security technology and service firms, through its Homeland Security Advisory Council, went on record urging Congress to enact even more legislation to standardize and modernize existing technology and practices used to identify and authenticate individual identity, specifically state and federal IDs; and develop sound policy to drive this standardization that is designed to keep citizens safe, while not infringing upon freedoms.