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   next year.   
      
   $   "The Body As Password", By Ann Davis, Wired Magazine, July 1997   
   $   
   $   In October 1995, the Federal Highway Administration awarded a $400,000   
   $   contract to San Jose State University's College of Engineering to develop   
   $   standards for a "biometric identifier" on commercial driver's licenses and   
   $   for use in a centralized national database.   
      
   A centralized national database of biometric information for cross-state   
   driver's licenses, and all individual state driver's license fingerprints   
   available via the FBI's NCIC.   
      
   Once most people are fingerprinted, a cheap (say $50) fingerprint scanner that   
   attaches a timestamp and government digital signature will be sold for allowing   
   Internet access to "adult" locations---chat rooms, USENET, WWW sites---and it   
   will be mandatory. The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court said as soon   
   as the "Internet driver's license" is technically feasible, CDA becomes legal.   
      
      "Such technology requires Internet users to enter information about   
       themselves--perhaps an adult identification numb   
      
      
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