April 30, 2009 · 7:09 pm

Biometrics, privacy and compliance [new article]

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It was deeply satisfying to see the piece on biometrics I’ve been working on go live today. It turned out well, especially with the usual polish that my brilliant copy editor put on the prose, formatting and pull quote.

“Biometric security data adds layer of privacy compliance risk”
30 Apr 2009 | SearchCompliance.com

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