By their cheeks you will know them

“Facial recognition technology is growing rapidly, both in the consumer world and among police, but privacy advocates are troubled by the potential for intrusion and misuse,” California Watch reports.

“… India’s government is working on an ambitious plan to biometrically identify each of its more than one billion people, and Mexico in 2010 signed a contract with Pennsylvania-based Unisys Corp. to build a large database of fingerprint, eye and faceprint information belonging to millions of people there. Officials in the United States already collect biometric data on international travellers wishing to enter the country. …

Researchers are also looking at the way we walk and even at human buttocks as possible unique identifiers for the future.”