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Article: The Human Touch: Biometrics being promoted to ensure Air Cargo Security. (Trans Tech).
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- World Trade
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- February 1, 2002
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National findings are just about to be released on the so-called O'Hare Air Cargo Security Access System, which aims to greatly improve security along a cargo delivery route through the use of smart-card technology and biometrics--the use of human characteristics such as fingerprints or eye scans to identify individuals.
WORLD TRADE MAGAZINE got an early glimpse of the findings developed by the American Trucking Association Foundation. Appearing in a report entitled O'Hare Air Cargo Security Access System: Testing the Effectiveness of Biometrics Smart Card Security, the study indicates that a variety of trucking and air freight companies and airlines who acted as ...