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FROM fingerprints to facial recognition used to unlock smartphones and open doors, biometrics is a technology being used to control human movement.
The integration of biometrics gained attention in its use by the US government after the terror attacks of September 11 2001, but the fact is that most biometrics systems in the US were already in place before then.
Currently, biometrics systems are used in the public sector in Britain such as within the border control systems and visa assessment processes for all foreign nationals.
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