Newsfront
December, 2004
Hands Up, Finger OutMinnetonka, Minnesota--The day may soon arrive when police ask not for your ID but for your index finger. The biometrics firm Identix markets to law enforcement a wireless device that scans a person's fingertip and beams the print to a database to look for a match. Known as IBIS, the $4,000 handheld can also snap a mug shot. Identix says the technology improves safety and saves officers time by positively identifying people they stop. Over a four-month period last year, polic...
