Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already
flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement here.
Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would
significantly expand the amount and kinds of biometric information it
receives. And in the coming years, law enforcement authorities around
the world will be able to rely on iris patterns, face-shape data, scars
and perhaps even the unique ways people walk and talk, to solve crimes
and identify criminals and terrorists.