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IP: Brave New World of Implants
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Brave New World of Implants Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 10:42:06 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Jewish World Review / Oct. 19,1998 / 29 Tishrei, 5759 http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0798/mothernature.html Can we 'fool Mother Nature'? Do we want to? By David S. Oderberg IMAGINE THAT YOU have been fitted with a tiny electronic device, measuring nearly an inch long and a third of an inch wide. This device receives and emits radio waves in the presence of transceivers in 'intelligent' buildings fitted to recognize the unique signal emanating from the tiny 'smart' chip in your body. This chip, implanted just under the skin on your arm, has immense advantages. With it you can open and close doors, pass through security channels set up to recognize your identity, operate machines such as computers and faxes, and generally negotiate your technological world with greater ease and convenience than at present. You can even use your chip to carry out daily commerce. Swipe your arm over a scanner and you can make payments, have your account debited automatically, check you bank balance. In short, you can do everything which currently requires you to lug around a walletful of credit cards. One small catch, though: because of this chip, your whereabouts are known to others at every minute of every day. You can be tracked like a car or airplane. Orwellian nightmare? Delusional apocalyptic fantasy? One would have thought so, until it emerged in the British press a short while ago that Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at the University of Reading -- my own university, as a matter of fact -- has decided to try out such a scenario on himself. Seeing himself as a latter day Edward Jenner -- the pioneering scientist who tried out the smallpox vaccine on his own body -- Prof. Warwick has entered the hallowed halls of self-experimentation by having just such a silicon chip injected under the skin near his elbow. He is, as far as anyone knows, the first person to do so. The results of his experiment are not yet known. He has to take antibiotics against the risk of infection, and is a little concerned his body will reject the alien device. Speaking of the doctor who agreed to implant the chip, Prof. Warwick says: "If it all goes wrong and my arm explodes, which I have been warned could happen, my wife will probably sue...". The good professor is, nevertheless, sanguine about the possible side effects. For he sees himself as a crusader at the cutting edge of cybertechnology. Already famous for his little machines -- looking a bit like cockroaches on wheels -- which, he glows, behave for all the world as though they have intelligence (something I and others doubted when we saw them in action), Prof. Warwick is thrusting forward in the attempt to fulfil the prophecy of his own recent best-seller, March of the Machines. "It is possible," he says, "for machines to become more intelligent than humans in the reasonably near future. Machines will then become the dominant life form on earth." Is this a tragedy? No, he adds blithely: "We are just an animal, not much better or worse than the other animals. We have our uses [sic], because we are different. We are slightly more intelligent than the other animals." The professor looks forward to the day when machines rule our lives. The fact that his microchip enables him to be traced is no great worry. His secretary finds it a boon: "It was often hard to find Prof. Warwick...but since the implant we always know where he is." And so would your employer if you were similarly implanted. You would be monitored every time you clocked in and out of work, or left the workplace. Prof. Warwick surmises the chip could carry all sorts of information, such as medical records, past convictions, financial data. "It is quite possible for an implant to replace an Access or Visa card. There is very little danger in losing an implant or having it stolen," he said. But it seems Prof. Warwick is alive to the dangers of the microchip implant: "I know all this smacks of Big Brother," he comments. Where the technology will ultimately go "I really don't know and would not like to envisage." By now, you may well be feeling a little spooked. This is not surprising. Nor should the experiment itself be such a shock. After all, on October 11th 1993, The Washington Times reported on the "high-tech national tattoo" made by Hughes Aircraft Company --- an implantable transponder which the company called "an ingenious, safe, inexpensive, foolproof and permanent method of ... identification using radio waves." In 1994, in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it was reported that a local humane society offered pet owners, for $25, to inject their dogs or cats with a microchip, to prevent their being lost or stolen. A Dr. Carl Sanders, electronics engineer and inventor of the Intelligent Manned Interface biochip, told the Monetary Economic Review that satellites could be used to track people fitted with the IMI chip: "We used this with military personnel in the Iraq war where they were actually tracked using this particular type of device." Whether soldiers have actually 'volunteered' to be surgically implanted with the chip, as opposed to carrying it on their clothing, is not made clear by Dr. Sanders. But what we do know is that proponents of this technology envisage first using it on animals (now widespread, particularly dogs, cats and cattle), then prisoners (more effective than electronic ankle tags), then children (e.g., newborn babies, so as to prevent their being switched or lost) and elderly people suffering from Alzheimer's disease (to prevent their wandering and getting lost). After that, who knows? The potential for the chips to replace credit cards and cash is huge, and will tempt financial institutions in turn to tempt their customers to 'try out' the chip with no obligation to carry it permanently, and monetary rewards for those who persevere. Supporters of the injectible microchip say it is just the logical extension of a technology that already allows the heavy monitoring of people through pagers, cellular phones, 'smart' cards, and cars fitted with Global Positioning System transponders. On the other hand, could it not be said that the advent of the chip implant is the final outrage which demonstrates the inherent unacceptability of its technological ancestors? We are, it seems, fast approaching a world that even George Orwell was not able to envisage. Had the microchip implant been known in his day there can be no doubt it would have replaced the 'telescreen' in his dystopian novel 1984. The fact that the corporations and individuals promoting its use are not being bombarded daily with protests from millions of outraged citizens is itself cause for wonder. How, particularly in countries such as the USA and Britain in which civil liberties are so prized, is it possible for so much propaganda to reach the mass media with barely a hint of contrary opinion? Prof. Warwick has gained enormous publicity, and is flooded with calls from journalists wanting to know how his little experiment is going. Until, however, a sufficient number of citizens make known their implacable opposition to the totalitarian trend of a technology which threatens to reduce most humans to the status of cattle, the likes of Prof. Warwick will go about their evil work unperturbed. JWR contributor Dr. David S. Oderberg is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading, England, and a freelance journalist. ©1998, David S. Oderberg ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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Re: Another potential flaw in current economic theory... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Hi, I've a point unrelated to this topic. I recieved two copies of your email. One was 101 lines and the other was 108 lines, the difference being 7 blank lines. Pretty curious, no? Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:15:13 -0400 > From: tzeruch(a)ceddec.com > Subject: Re: Another potential flaw in current economic theory... > Not labor any more than capital. I think what you refer to is often > called "stakeholders" which includes suppliers and customers in addition > to employees. Well suppliers are a business unto themselves so I'm not sure I can extend my point that far. I certainly wouldn't include customers as this confuses the entire issue of the point of business (ie making a profit). If we extend the issue to include customers then we're looking at reducing our profit margin to zero as we discount our services to the customer over time. There is also the aspect that with this model we end up selling our service to ourselves, an inherently loosing proposition since there is no profit to be made at all in that case. > However you do not need to play games to justify proper treatment of > employees. I didn't mean to imply any sort of mistreatment, though I did raise that spectre in related postings. Sorry for the confusion. The point I was trying to make was that business has a third, and untried near as I can tell, strategy in approaching their business process. Include the employees in the plan with the specific goal of making them rich enough and invested enough so they don't have to work and do it in a short time span - say 10 years. I've read a few pieces (I must admit to viewing them as pie-in-the-sky) which predict that what will happen with technology is that people will begin to invest in automated processes and over time as these become ubiquitous people don't work, they live off their profit from the investment in these automated factories. One aspect, which I alluded to above, is that at some point the investors are also their own customers so that the profit they make to buy the materials is in a closed loop. This seems to me to invite a level of inflation (in order to preserve at least the ghost of a profit) that would explode pretty quickly. > If you consider capital such as a machine, it is usually > better to keep it well maintained and in good repair instead of letting it > wear out and rust - the quality of your goods will suffer, profits will go > down, and shareholders will dump management. True enough, though the machines don't retire (they do wear out). If we look at it from a strictly cost analysis perspective I'd agree with you (as I understand your point) fully. The question I have is what if we abandon the Friedman view and take on a more humanistic view. In short, business represent a participant in a social process. As a result they have more duties than just making profit for their shareholders (or stakeholders). [text deleted] > Our current stock market bubble - which is in the process of popping - > distorted this. I agree in part, I believe that the reason we're seeing the failure of the traditional economic systems is that in large scales with extremely fluid capital (intellectual, physical, monetary, etc.) it becomes very difficult to keep long term participants when there are so many more lucrative short-term potentials. I personaly feel the collapse of the CCCP in the early 90's is a good indication of this 'delayed responce' syndrome. I also believe the current problem with funding the government is another example where the gains are such that the traditional political and social views don't apply well enough so that the errors cancel each other out. Instead they pile on top of each other over time. My guess is that the current political system will collapse of its own ineptitude and lethargy as well as a wedding to outmoded ideas sometime in the next 20 years or so. What comes after, I believe at this point, will be a polycratic technocracy based on distributed democratic ideals. > My concept of Usury (yes, another mideval or earlier > idea) is loaning in the abstract. You just want 5% or 10%, and try to > find a piece of paper (or electronic book entry) that will return it > regardless of what is behind the paper. This can include ponzi schemes if > they aren't recognized as such. Oops, what's a 'ponzi scheme'? I can't find it in any of my texts.... > If people were really investing in the non-usurous sense, they would be > concerned with the company as an organic whole, with the suppliers, and > customers, and employees, and the physical plant and everything else, I understand the conept of 'organic whole'. I have to disagree at extending it to include the customers and suppliers for the reasons listed above. In a very real sense the term you use is more apt than anything I've come up with so far as a label. > If I want milk, I will be very concerned with keeping the cow happy and > healthy, and doing so rationally - pampering the cow too much won't give > any more milk and maybe make the cow less healthy, but starving it or > beating it would be worse. I agree, the interesting question - I hope without stretching the comparison too far - is what happens when the farmer figures out how to make the milk using a bacteria (for example) via genetic manipulation? (this is meant as an example of technical invasion of a traditional market) Does the farmer continue to feed the cow on principle (it being a fellow living creature and mankind having destroyed its natural habitats and hence we can't turn it loose) or simply kill the beast and sell the remains to the golden arches? > price didn't go up further). I haven't heard a reason connected with > something tangible (dividends, book-value, cash flow) for someone to own > such a stock. Only that "it the internet". And I think this decoupling > is at the center of what you are getting at. Paper v.s. people, and when > it comes time to decide, the paper wins. That is most definitely a major aspect of the problem. People get so dazzled by the visions of fruit plums dancing before their eyes they don't notice the snow has melted. > There is a lot of ignorance, and it is rational in the short term - these > stocks are going up, so it would otherwise make sense to follow the trend. > But if the trend is all that is being watched, who is going to care if > they are using slave-labor? - to mention just one issue. I'm afraid I don't quite catch your point here. Could you reword it? > But that is investing in a bubble. Exactly why I don't want to see an integrated world economy. It's doomed to fail from the get go. > The same thing happened in 1720 with > the South Seas company in Great Britian and the Mississippi Scheme in > France. I'll look into these as I'm not familiar with the particular. Thanks for the lead. > And I think we will see the same thing here and across the globe shortly. > Japan started to see this in the early '90s. Agreed. What I find really funny (in a macabre sort of sense I admit) is that the folks who are hording gold and other supposed universal valuables are in for a big surprise at what comes out of the other end. This is going to be a economic/political Industrial Revolution the likes of which haven't been seen since mankind invented the little clay balls for sealing contracts for selling sheep and such. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: Another question about free-markets... (fwd)
by Jim Choate 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Forwarded message: > Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 15:53:45 -0400 > From: tzeruch(a)ceddec.com > Subject: Re: Another question about free-markets... (fwd) > Most of these are due to regulation. No, they are due to a basic human trait - greed. The problem isn't a economic one it's a people one. If you assume the Secret Service > will bear the cost of enforcing anti-cloning laws, you will not spend the > money to make your phones unclonable even if the technology exists. Assuming of course you trust the Secret Service fully and they happen to be honest to a fault. > Excessive rate levels are a misnomer. The only way you can succeed in > charging above market prices is if there is a law to bar entry. But that is the exact point in regards cell cloning for example. The final cost to the purchaser of the clone is *less* than the normal market price. In a free-market economy the obviously rational thing to do is clone, the really bad thing is there is nobody short of Guido and his buds to help the original maker recover those costs or prevent recurrences. > sub-standard construction is also a misnomer - if you paid for standard X, > you simply don't pay until the construction is up to that standard. You've got a circular reasoning here. If we're still talking about a free market there is no 3rd party to define standards and such to measure against. There won't even be groups that will be able to review the various products and compare them in an open market (review the current database licenses in regards to doing public comparisons). > Hardly. If you are saying consumers are stupid, you are probably right, No, I'm saying there is a considerable sector of the human population that is dishonest. This won't change based on economic models. > And you assume that men are islands and don't talk or communicate. Actualy I don't. My point is that such assumptions about instant communications (as required by current economic models) is irrelevant. I covered that aspect at one point. The fact that people communicate won't change their base bahaviour characteristics one whit, those are a function of long-term species survival strategies. People are social animals, the maximum strategy in social animals is the Prisoners Delima, you play along most of the time and cheat occassionaly. Over time this strategy will accumulate more resources than either a pure cheating or honest strategy. It's this transient aspect that is completely ignored by current economic though, they recognize only the two extremes. > Imagine two restaraunts. If people get food poisoning every week or so at > one, people will learn not to go there, and it will fold as people go to > the second. This example really doesn't fit my theory since it isn't possible for a single (or even two) restaraunts to saturate a market. I suspect that food, is entirely too tied to the vagaries of transient taste to behave this way. What is more likely to happen is that as people go back and forth between the two restaraunts from day to day (assume that one of them is dealing bad food) both will go down. Remember there isn't a health inspector or somebody to come and test the food, only the experiential evidence of the eaters. Now since it takes as much as 24+ hours for symptoms to develop it is entirely possible for a person to eat at one restaraunt on Monday at luch and get food poisoning and it not show up until the next afternoon, *after* they've already eaten at the second restaraunt. At that point the person is sick and isn't going to want to go back to either. Better safe than sorry. > Reputation (economists include it in the term "good will") > does have an economic benefit. Only in certain kinds of markets. I don't believe free markets are one of them. > You simply may not like human psychology, but that does not make the free > market any less just. I'm not sure how to respond to this. Let me put it to you this way... How do you propose a free market to operate if there aren't people (and as a conequence their psychology) involved? > The market enforces a foolishness tax which no government can repeal. Again, only in certain situations - a free-market is not one of them. You might want to look at some of the recent studies done (I was looking at an article the other day at the bookstore but can't remember the article - sorry) that demonstrate pretty conclusively that mediocre strategies pay off over time nearly as well as optimal ones do. ____________________________________________________________________ To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. Confucius The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage(a)ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Dust off your anonymous voting protocols...
by Robert Hettinga 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

Now all we need is a modern-day Robbespierre? I love the smell of mob rule in the morning? Nawwwwww... Cheers, Bob Hettinga --- begin forwarded text X-Sender: massmail@css Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 10:46:02 -0600 To: rah(a)shipwright.com From: cwheeler(a)activmedia.com Subject: Will 'Net Ballots Supplant Congress? WILL DIRECT DEMOCRACY PRE-EMPT SOME OF CONGRESS'S POWER? Questions Remain about Implementation ActivMedia Research (http://www.activmedia.com) - Two of three Internet afficionados think online elections are a good idea (66% to 33%). The same proportion would like to be able to vote on ballot referenda and exercise direct democracy via the 'Net (67%). "Obviously, the technical ability to move toward direct democracy must be accompanied by debate about its merits and what is an appropriate level of technocratic and professional decision-making on our behalf," notes ActivMedia's Director of Information Services Chris Anne Wheeler. "Some laws are best implemented by professionals for the public good such as environmental protection, national defense, and public welfare. But virtually all online consumers polled in ActivMedia's FutureScapes agree that a sunshine policy making legislative bills, voting records, and budgets available online for public inspection would be a good idea (97%)." ------------------------------------------------------------- CIVIC RESPONSIBILITIES ONLINE (Good Idea) Total Sample 4+ Yrs Online ------------ ------------- Vote for elected officials 66% 71% Vote on ballot referenda 67% 72% Search bills, voting records, budgets 97% 98% -------------------------------------------------------------- Source: FutureScapes Study, ActivMedia Research, © 1998 Survey respondents with 4+ years of online experience the greatest propensity to want to vote online. As expected, younger (under 15) as well as older (over 65) 'Netizens show a somewhat higher resistance to carrying out civic responsibilities online. The conservatives in the Northeast show a slightly greater resistance especially when it comes to voting for elected officials (63%), but essentially the desire to vote online is favored by the majority no matter their demographic background. All across the country, websites are cropping up that help voters weed through the oftentimes overwhelming amount of information on candidates and issues. The greatest challenge for voters is tracking down objective nonpartisan sources of candidate information. Trials of online voting are scarce as policy-makers grapple with issues of fraud and security. Data in this release is from ActivMedia Research's syndicated study "FutureScapes: Refining 'Net Strategy for the 21st Century." The full study of online habits and interests of 5,600 online citizens is available to purchase for $2,995 (single copy) or $5,000 (multi-user site license). ActivMedia Incorporated conducts custom and syndicated research that guides businesses to profitable online positions. Since 1994, ActivMedia has been detailing global 'Net trends and sector slices with a series of quantitative research reports, market analyses and case studies. Insightful analyses and accessible data support rational businesses decisions for clients including Andersen Consulting, Cisco, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Visa, Yahoo and Ziff-Davis. CONTACT INFORMATION ActivMedia, Inc. http://www.activmedia.com (Research Home Page) Email: research(a)activmedia.com Harold Wolhandler, Vice President of Market Research Chris Anne Wheeler, Director of Information Services Tel: 800-639-9481, 603-924-9100 Fax: 603-924-2184 --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah(a)philodox.com> Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'

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17 Dec '03

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Re: your mail
by ichudov＠Algebra.COM 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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by insight＠sprynet.com 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

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IP: Privacy Under Threat
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Privacy Under Threat Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 02:37:56 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com PRIVACY UNDER THREAT The Global Internet Liberty Campaign has released its latest survey of privacy in 50 countries. It found that new technologies including the Internet are increasingly eroding privacy rights, but there is a growing trend towards privacy and data protection acts around the world. Over 40 countries are in the process of enacting such laws. See http://www.gilc.org/privacy/survey/ **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: Former FBI Workers File Whistleblower Suit
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: believer(a)telepath.com Subject: IP: Former FBI Workers File Whistleblower Suit Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 09:40:46 -0500 To: believer(a)telepath.com Source: Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/1998-10/20/021r-102098-idx.html Former FBI Workers File Whistleblower Suit Three Say Legal Protections Not Enforced By Michael Grunwald Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, October 20, 1998; Page A17 Three former FBI employees sued the federal government yesterday, alleging that President Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno have failed to enforce a 1989 law that protects whistleblowers who complain about misconduct at the agency. Former FBI agent Thomas M. Chamberlin, former FBI chemist Jorge L. Villanueva and former FBI staffer Cheryl J. Whitehurst all allege that they were fired or forced out of the bureau for reporting misconduct by their colleagues. Whitehurst also contends she was harassed because she is married to Frederic Whitehurst, a chemist whose allegations launched a major investigation of the FBI laboratory. Congress exempted the FBI, the CIA and the National Security Agency from the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989, which established a government-wide Office of Special Counsel to investigate complaints of retaliation against employees of most federal agencies. But a companion law directed the president to set up a separate system to protect FBI employees from reprisals, and in April 1997, after a lawsuit by Frederic Whitehurst, Clinton issued a memorandum directing Reno to create it. Justice Department officials are drafting new regulations that would establish an office at the department to handle internal complaints about the FBI. But after 18 months of work, the regulations are not ready. "This is not a simple process, but the attorney general is taking it very seriously," said Justice Department spokesman Bert Brandenburg. "When we're done with this, there will be a structure that FBI whistleblowers can turn to with confidence. . . . We're trying to set up something entirely new here. It's not just add water and mix." Brandenburg said the department expects to issue new regulations soon, but said he could not be more specific. But David K. Colapinto, an attorney for the three former FBI employees, said the government has been promising those regulations for nine years. "They keep telling us it's in the works, but they never produce any results," Colapinto said. "Without whistleblower protection for FBI employees, there cannot be effective oversight of the FBI's activities." The FBI declined comment, referring questions to Brandenburg. According to recent testimony by Justice Department inspector general Michael Bromwich, the FBI received 499 allegations of "serious misconduct" from its employees last year and another 518 allegations of "routine misconduct." But since the employees who made them were not covered by the Whistleblower Protection Act, they had no guarantee that they could appear before an administrative law judge if they believed they were victims of retaliation, or that they would have access to documents about their case during the discovery process. Frederic Whitehurst, once the FBI's top expert in explosives residue analysis, recently settled his own whistleblower lawsuit with the bureau for about $1.65 million. Bromwich's massive investigation did not substantiate all of Whitehurst's allegations, but it did reveal major shortcomings at the FBI lab. Cheryl Whitehurst said she was retaliated against for her husband's activities and for reporting the widespread use of bootlegged software on FBI computers in violation of copyright laws. She said she quit her job under duress last month. Villanueva, who also worked in the laboratory, said he lost his job in January because he refused to sign a petition supporting a supervisor who had been criticized in Bromwich's report, and because he complained that a colleague had forged a signature on a lab report. Chamberlin said he was fired in 1994 after he gave confidential testimony about wiretap violations by the FBI's Detroit field office, and then complained that the subsequent FBI investigation of the alleged violations had targeted him. © Copyright 1998 The Washington Post Company ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo(a)majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************

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IP: Biometric Weekly: 10-19-98
by Vladimir Z. Nuri 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

From: Biometric Weekly <biometrics-request(a)anet-stl.com> Subject: IP: Biometric Weekly: 10-19-98 Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 08:48:10 -0600 To: ignition-point(a)majordomo.pobox.com 10-19-98 Welcome to "Biometric Weekly " - a weekly e-mail report on biometric identification news - a service of the Biometric Digest. "Biometric Weekly" is distributed free of charge on Monday of each week. ............................................................................ .... Mentis Corp., a market research firm in Durham, N.C., says the biometric market will total $100 million this year, a tiny fraction of the $100 billion spent on private security in the U.S. Yet Mentis predicts the market will grow at a brisk 27% to 35% through 2000 as pattern-recognition software improves, computers become better able to handle the power-hungry biometric applications and prices fall. ............................................................................ .... Sonoma Resource Corp. has an agreement to acquire 45% of Biometric identification Inc. . BII is an innovator in creating and applying fingerprint authorization and verification technology. ............................................................................ .... Biometric Identification Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bob Kamm announced his firm is collaborating with Key Source International to integrate Bio ID silicon sensor fingerprint verification technology into Key Source computer keyboards. ............................................................................ .... Biometric Identification Inc. announced the development and introduction of prototypes for the first complete Biometric Fingerprint Identification System that utilizes silicon sensor verification technology. ............................................................................ .... SAFLINK Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of The National Registry Inc. announced that it has licensed speech recognition and speaker verification software technologies from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V. ............................................................................ .... BERGDATA AG releases its new Fingerprint Software Developer's Kit . Using this tool interested companies are able to develop and market their own fingerprint based security applications. ............................................................................ .... Identix Inc. (ASE:IDX), a provider of live-scan and biometric verification systems, announced the State of Wisconsin has chosen Tacoma, Wash.-based Sagem Morpho Inc. (Morpho), a subsidiary of Paris-based SAGEM SA, to provide Identix TouchPrint 600(TM) live-scan systems and TouchPrint 602 card-scan systems for use by Wisconsin law enforcement agencies. ............................................................................ .... Philips Flat Display Systems (FDS), a division of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, and Who? Vision Systems, Inc., a developer of fingerprint biometric technologies and products, announced they have partnered to develop and market a new line of flat fingerprint sensors for an array of portable computing and consumer electronics products. ............................................................................ .... T-NETIX, Inc. (Nasdaq: TNTX), a provider of specialized call processing and fraud control software technologies, announced today it was awarded a three-year contract, with an option for two additional years, for the installation of its new Inmate Calling System to Bell Atlantic and AT&T for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ............................................................................ .... Speech recognition took a small step forward last week when four companies announced that they had formed a V-Commerce Alliance to promote the technology for electronic commerce. Details of these four companies will appear in the next printed edition of the "Biometric Digest." ............................................................................ .... -Sylvan/Identix Fingerprinting Centers, a joint venture of Sylvan Learning Systems Inc. (SLVN) and Identix Inc. (IDX), received a contract from UAL Corp.'s (U) United Airlines unit to provide fingerprinting services. Sylvan/Identix said United will use Identix's TouchPrint 600 live-scan units in screening applicants to meet U.S. Postal Service requirements for background checks on employees who handle mail. ............................................................................ .... Printrak International Inc. (AFIS) received a contract valued at more than $45 million to provide automated fingerprint technology to the government of Argentina. The company said it expects to have the system up and running in less than a year. Printrak will work with prime contractor Siemens Nixdorf GmbH, a unit of Siemens AG, to fulfill the contract ............................................................................ .... Identix Inc. said it has won a contract for over $1.2 million to supply fingerprint identification equipment to the Internal Revenue Service. ANADAC Inc., a subsidiary of Identix, will supply the IRS with the TouchPrint 600 system which scans fingerprints automatically. 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