A growing number of organizations are calling for the federal government to add biometric elements to its E-verify program-- an Internet-based system used to verify new employees' authorization to work in the United States.
The security Industry Association (SIA) recently became the latest group to urge Congress to reform the current program, which uses Social Security numbers to verify a new hire's employment status. The E-Verify system has registered error rates as high as 13% and cannot detect identity fraud, according to the SIA.
A Senate Proposal, which SIA endorsed, calls for the Social Security Administration to issue new Social Security cards that include a photograph and a microchip bearing biometric data. The new cards would be fraud and tamper resistant and would make it harder for undocumented immigrants to use a stolen or fake identity to obtain employment.
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Don't volunteer any information that you actually care about. You simply can't go out and get new fingerprints if someone steals or pirates your biometric identity. Government officials are notorious for losing hundreds of thousands of people's information through incompetence and internal fraud.
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