Logica Holdings is offering proprietary biometric technology enrollment and validation system for underage users of social networking sites to help prevent sexual predators from using those sites to contact children. Logica’s technology incorporating biometric technology in the form of a fingerprint reader, developed along with its partners Novell, Fujitsu and 123ID, is currently being employed in Logica’s new web site Annesdiary.com. Logica intends to approach MySpace and other social networking sites with its unique solution. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/archive-4.gif)
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