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Old Nov 16, 2004 | 12:49 am
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Slightly OT: why US visitor screening is flawed

Interesting piece in USA Today:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/...g_x.htm?csp=34

Apart from the program having cost US $1bn to implement so far (these costs set to rise to $10bn), the whole business of taking two fingerprints seems to be a waste of time: "Critics say the two-print database won't work well with the FBI's database and will lead to a high error rate"
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