Thursday, October 26, 2006

German Railway Tests Biometric Technology / CIO, 23 Oct 2006

http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=26000
"Terrorists attempting to smuggle bombs into trains could be stopped in their tracks by intelligent surveillance technology being tested by German railway company Deutsche Bahn.
"We’re a couple of weeks into a pilot project that is testing technology designed to automatically detect terrorists or other criminals entering trains and alert security personnel," Jens Puls, director of corporate security at Deutsche Bahn, said Monday at the Systems IT trade show in Munich."