The rising Surveillance State Industrial Complex: European biometrics market booming, says analyst
EE Times – Biometrics in the EMEA region (Europe, Middle East and Africa) earned 216.1 million euro in 2008 (about $300 million) and is anticipated to reach 1,058.0 million euro by 2015 (about $1.5 billion), according to market research firm Frost & Sullivan. Such growth represents a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.5 percent from 2008 to 2015. It is expected that various government projects, such as e-passports and national identity schemes, will counterbalance the negative impact that the current economic recession. The technologies that provide biometric identification include face recognition, iris recognition and hand geometry as well as voice and signature verification Read Article
