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New Report Finds Biometric ID Card Could Cost $40 Billion
Released: 2/9/2012 9:00 AM EST
Source: University of California, Berkeley, School of Law

Newswise — A mandatory biometric employment verification card for all U.S. workers could cost at least $40 billion, infringe on Americans’ civil liberties, and fail to stop the employment of undocumented immigrants, according to a new report. Hard to BELIEVE: The High Cost of a Biometric Identity Card finds that a biometric ID card would not only have a hefty initial price tag, but it will also cost $3 billion in ongoing annual expenditures.

The report, released by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy at UC Berkeley School of Law, is a first-ever in-depth analysis of the costs of establishing a biometric employment identity card. The mandatory card, containing a worker’s fingerprints or a hand vein scan, would replace various forms of ID, such as a driver’s license, social security card and passport, during the hiring process.

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Report here: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/Belie ... _Final.pdf

The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy
Berkeley Law Center for Research and Administration
2850 Telegraph Avenue
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Hard to BELIEVE: the high Cost of a Biometric Identity Card
Written by A. Michael Froomkin and Jonathan Weinberg*
edited by Aarti Kohli

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The U.S. Census Bureau recently had to fingerprint all its census-takers; it trained staff people in fingerprint-taking for two hours, and even so 20% of the prints they took failed. (10)

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10. See 2010 Census: A Status Update of Key Decennial Operations, Before the Subcomm. on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services and International Security Comm. on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate (February 23, 2010) (statement of Robert M. Groves Director US Census Bureau) available at http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases ... -23-10.pdf.

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