Biometric specialist from 3M Canada, Colin McGeachey, announced at the Biometrics 2010 conference in London that the Caribbean leads the world in multi-country biometric border control programs with 15 different countries and 18 airports operating on the same fingerprint and facial biometrics-based system.
Other places where biometric acceptance is high includes Frankfurt airport in Germany where the passport gates accept biometrically-enabled passports from 62 countries. German Federal Office for Information Security official Mark Nuppeney also spoke at the conference detailing some of the advances the Frankfurt system has in place, but also noted its high rejection rates resulting in one in eight people requiring human intervention to pass through the gate. ![[end]](/resources/bullet/thirdfactor-4.gif)
