RegardingID Archive | Modern Marvels to shoot BSI segment

Friday, May 15, 2009

The History Channel program called Modern Marvels has arrived in Morgantown, West Virginia to shoot a segment on the biometrics testing lab at Biometric Services International (BSI), according to a Charleston Gazette article.

Officials from the BSI expect the crew to only be in town for a day and that the BSI segments are to be part of a larger biometrics segment. BSI is a subsidiary of the National Biometric Security Project and has a mission set for itself to test new technologies in hopes of reducing terrorist and criminal activities. Previously they have worked on testing e-passports for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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