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THAT WILL MAKE DATA INSTANTLY AVAILABLE TO FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL
*       LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS.
*
*       The federal government's goal is to BRING RANDOM PIECES OF DATA
*       TOGETHER TO GET A MORE COMPLETE PICTURE---WHAT SOME CALL INTELLIGENCE.

Wow. All federal agencies will be linked together in a vast intelligence
network. Handheld fingerprint devices will be deployed. Obviously.

They are working around the limitations Congress wanted on NCIC 2000.

And how much hardware is a handheld fingerprint device?

*   "Lucent in New Identification Joint Venture"
*   The New York Times, 5/22/97
*   
*   Lucent Technologies [Bell Labs is their research and development arm] and
*   U.S. Venture Partners said today that they had formed a company that would
*   make products to help people prove their identities through electronic
*   fingerprinting technology.
*   
*   The first product of the company, Veridicom Inc., will be a postage-size
*   fingerprint sensor used to retrieve information, authorize purchases or
*   allow entry into restricted areas.
*   
*   The postage-size sensor will measure the ridges and valleys on the skin
*   when a finger is pressed against a silicon chip, and then check the
*   measurements against the user's profile.

Not big at all, is it?

#   "Faster, More Accurate Fingerprint Matching"
#   By Andrea Adelson, The New York Times, October 11 1992
#   
#   "We think there will be a revolution in fingerprinting," said David F.
#   Nemecek, a deputy for the FBI's Information Service Di