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Bush Directive On Biometrics Creates Framework For Improved Federal Coordination

By Calvin Biesecker President Bush last Thursday signed a new directive calling on federal agencies to coordinate, and share better their use of biometrics to better prosecute the War on Terror. These "agencies shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, make available to other agencies all biometric and associated biographic and contextual information associated with persons for whom there is an articulable and reasonable basis for suspicion that they pose a threat to national security," says the directive, which…

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