Date sent:         Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:52:37 -0500
To:                politech{at}politechbot.com
From:              Declan McCullagh 
Subject:           FC: Will the state of Georgia fingerprint all drivers?
Send reply to:     declan{at}well.com

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From: "Richard M. Smith" 
To: "'Declan McCullagh'" 
Subject: Is the State of Georgia going to fingerprint all drivers?
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:07:12 -0500

Hi Declan,

If I am reading today's press release from Viisage correctly, the State
or Georgia plans to fingerprint everyone in the state who applies for a
drivers licenses.  I thought that only criminals and people who work in
high security jobs got fingerprinted.  Is Georgia the first state to do
this kind of thing?

Richard


http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/021118/nem040_1.html

Viisage Awarded Digital Driver's License Contract by State of Georgia

LITTLETON, Mass., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Viisage Technology,
Inc. (Nasdaq: VISG - News), the leader in facial recognition biometrics
and secure identification systems, announced today that the company has
been awarded a contract from the state of Georgia to design, develop and
implement a new digital driver's license program. The value of the total
six- year contract is approximately $20 million.

...

Viisage will implement an in-state, central card production solution
that will cost effectively allow tight management of the production and
issuance of highly secure drivers' credentials using 3M's Confirm(TM)
security overlay. Central production will also afford the DMVS tighter
control of the storing, analysis and retrieval of information including
scanned application forms, portrait images, signature images,
fingerprints and data associated with each driver's record.

....

Viisage has partnered with SAGEM Morpho to create the new fingerprint
biometric solution, which will allow the rapid searching of any
fingerprint against the DMVS fingerprint database. 


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