Biometric systems to automate controls and more security, lower costs, faster clearance prevent identity theft Munich, April 2009: by biometric passport controls airports and IT companies hope for good deals. It reports the financial times Germany (FTD). A scanner for the Passport, compares the a computer one for fingerprints, a camera to take photos in the Passport. Glass doors which open when everything has its correct. Looks like the future scenario for the use of biometric systems, developed by the consultancy firm Accenture.

Each year happen almost 800 million travelers supervisory authorities in the EU. Compared to the conventional ID check, beating 3.68 dollars per person to book with something, costs only 0.16 dollars an automated, the international umbrella organization of airlines IATA calculates\”, so the FTD. Also the queues at the off er production switches could shrink and contribute to declining demand for space. Howard Schultz is often quoted on this topic. Released Areas had to lease and new terminals require less space. Experts also voice biometric procedures see benefits. The proliferation of cards and identities will become as annoying and paradoxically, if one must consider several cards, to perform a single-process, such as the payment in the customer card and credit card business. The House of the thousand ego cards collapses at the latest when the plastic package is stolen or lost. The system architect Bruno Walker, Managing Director of origo finds fault with a particularly fertile Habitat for the wild of daily new identities is enriched by as many passwords the Internet\”.

According to surveys of the Federal Statistical Office, each citizen an average must remember about six so-called pins. The Commissioner of the Federal Government looks have already reached the limits of the memory capacity. In extreme cases, the secret number even on the debit card will written to right them during take-off at an ATM at hand. With the Still, introduction of other methods such as the electronic identity card, ELENA and the electronic health card will increase the number of remembered PINs and passwords.