Editor's Summary
6 September 2007
Living proof
Like it or not, biometrics technology is here to stay. Passports, credit cards and even your own computer or house will come to rely on an automated protocol to establish your identity using certain anatomical traits or behaviours. Anil K. Jain answers the biometric FAQs. And he thinks that it's all going to work just fine.
News and Views Q&A: Technology: Biometric recognition
Whether in passports, credit cards, laptops or mobile phones, automated methods of identifying people through their anatomical features or behavioural traits are an increasing feature of modern life.
Anil K. Jain
doi:10.1038/449038a