A. Thesis: Biometric technology is used for a variety of many things, but its mostly dedicated to identify and verification methods.
B. Biometric Technology has been used before the 20th century starting the in the 14th century in China using handprints and foot prints to identify each other.
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A. Main Idea: Biometric technology has been traced back to the 14 century in China and through the 19 century developing more uniquely .
1. In China merchants used children's palm and footprints to distinguish them from one another
(Amy Zalman).
2.Late 19th century an Argentine police official was the first person to keep fingerprint files. He classified fingerprints according to a system established by Sir Francis Galton, an anthropologist related to Charles Darwin. Galton later published a book, Fingerprints, that contained a classification system. His discovery that no two individuals share the same fingerprint, and his classification of the details of an individual's fingerprint are largely used today. By the 1920s, fingerprint identification was used by law enforcement, the U.S. military and the FBI as a form of identification (Amy Zalman).
3. In 1902 USA used its first synthetic fingerprint system (fingerprint identification). http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/fingerprint-overview B. Concluding Statements: Biometrics have been used early before the 20th century even without the use of technology today.
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A. Main Idea: The original use of Biometric Technology was for prisoners, police took a sample of their fingerprints to have their identity but their are plenty of other ways to have identification such as iris scans, facial scans, and others.
1.The New York state prison system began to use fingerprints for the identification of criminals in 1903 (Fingerprint Identification).
2. Hand Geometry measures users hands and fingers using a three dimensional perspective.