Thursday, March 22, 2007

Canadian airports roll out dual biometric ID system / ComputerWorld, 14 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4sacb
Mari-Len De Guzman
"100,000 workers have personal info stored on their RFID cards
Security is soaring at Canadian airports with the rollout of a dual biometric-based airport identification card program by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA), reportedly the first of its kind in the world.
The Restricted Area Identity Card (RAIC) program, implemented across 29 Canadian airports, was an initiative by the Ministry of Transport that began in 2002 in a bid to beef up security at Canada's airports."