Biometric Scanning Technologies: Finger, Facial and Retinal Scanning

This paper discusses several Biometric scan technologies: finger-scan, facialscan and retinal-scan. We discuss the recent history of Biometrics and how it has been influenced by such pseudo-sciences as Phrenology, the study of human skull characteristics and Anthropometry, the study of human body...

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Edmund Spinella

August 22, 2003

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