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ID revolution – prepare to meet the new you

By Celeste Biever

7 September 2005

In the past, a simple hand-scrawled signature would be enough to establish your identity. Today, we need a bewildering ass ortment of computer-readable passports, driver’s licences, credit card numbers, logins and passwords to identify ourselves when we travel, shop, bank and work. In short, our digital identity is becoming more important than our physical identity. And that’s just the start of the identity revolution. Soon biometrics will transform what it takes to prove who you are.

In a two-part special report starting this week, Âé¶¹´«Ã½ investigates this trend and how it will change society. Will your digital identity…

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