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make certain
*   hand signs, or carry marking pens or pagers."


The worst-case version of a National ID Card is a biometric-based one.

Biometrics means that card is numbered with your fingerprint, or retina
scan, or other unique physical characteristic.

You would be enumerated. Numbered for all time.

*     CARROLLTON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 1997--Sandia Imaging, a
*   majority-owned subsidiary of Lasertechnics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LASX) and a
*   leader in secure card technologies, will premiere the world's first
*   printer that can personalize, print and encode optical cards in a
*   single, on-line process, during CardTech/SecurTech '97 in Orlando, FL
*   from May 19 through 22.
*
*   This new technology significantly streamlines the printing and encoding
*   process, making highly secure optical cards more efficient and less
*   costly for use as health care cards and in other industries.
*   
*   Developed jointly by Sandia Imaging and Canon USA, the VIVID 2000's
*   optical card encoding module incorporates Canon's Society for
*   Interchange of Optical Cards (SIOC) optical card technology, thus
*   enabling single, one-pass encoding. [it's a color card printer]

Is it just a sophisticated photo-ID, or is it a Universal Biometric Card?

*     Sandia has combined its exclusive DataGlyphs portable database software
*   and secure card printing technologies with Fingerscan's three
*   dimensional fingerprint imaging capabilities to provide a complete
*   secure card solution using biometric data.
*
*   The innovations of this technology can benefit banking and financial
*   institutions, national welfare, benefits and immigration programs. In
*   recent contracts, technology from Fingerscan has replaced traditional
*   password systems at the White House and at the U.S. Strategic Air Command.
*   
*      Fingerscan, an Identix company, provides biometric identification in
*   the form of a three dimensional scan of a