Business Systems Magazine, Feb. 1998, p. 78:
BIOMETRICS PROTECTS GOVERNMENT DATA
For example, Spain's government recently integrated biometric verification units in 633 informational kiosks that will eventually be used by 7 million citizens (the project is 45% complete). ... The 633 kiosks are located in various government offices in the Andalusia region of Spain, says John Souder, program manager for Unisys. The Spanish Government plans to implement the kiosks nationwide. ... To use the kiosks, citizens had to obtain a smart card with their name and an ID number. Citizens also had to be "enrolled" in the system. During the enrollment process, each citizen's right or left index fingerprint is scanned and stored to the smart card. That way, the system can verify the citizen using the card is the same person authorized to use it. ... Citizens can then access databases for the National Institute of Social Security; the National Institute of Employment; the General Treasury of Social Security and the Social Institute For Sea Workers.