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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is expanding beyond its traditional fingerprint-focused collection practices to develop a new biometrics system that will include DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans, blended to create what's known as "multi-modal biometrics." Slideshow: The changing face of biometrics How the Defense Department might institutionalize war-time biometrics "The FBI today is announcing a rapid DNA initiative," said Louis Grever, executive assistant director of the FBI's science and technology branch, during his keynote presentation at the Biometric Consortium Conference in Tampa. The FBI plans to begin migrating from its IAFIS database, established in the mid-1990s to hold its vast fingerprint data, to a next-generation system that's expected to be in prototype early next year. This multi-modal NGI biometrics database system will hold DNA records and more.

"A UN watchdog has called for a new international agreement on privacy following a review of the expanding global array of surveillance measures and databases advanced by governments in the cause of counter-terrorism. The special rapporteur on human rights, Martin Scheinin, said the UN should create a "a global declaration on data protection and data privacy" in response. His report, delivered to the UN's Human Rights Council, describes the expansion of watchlists, border checks, financial data sharing, interception of communications, biometrics and ID registers in recent years. "States no longer limit exceptional surveillance schemes to combating terrorism and instead make these surveillance powers available for all purposes," he added."

The rap on the iPhone and iPod touch is that it's chiefly an entertainment device. (After all the software keyboard is damn irritating.) But the Army doesn't think so. Newsweek reports that the military is very high on the touch, since it's priced at about a third the price of an iPhone. Since it's a app platform, the Army can update soldiers' capabilities with the touch of a button and touch lets soldiers network their intelligence. Next Wave Systems in Indiana, is expected to release iPhone software that would enable a soldier to snap a picture of a street sign and, in a few moments, receive intelligence uploaded by other soldiers (the information would be linked by the words on the street sign). This could include information about local water quality or the name and photograph of a local insurgent sympathizer. The U.S. Marine Corps is funding an application for Apple devices that would allow soldiers to upload photographs of detained suspects, along with written reports, into a biometric database. The software could match faces, making it easier to track suspects after they're released.

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It was the annual crunch time between Thanksgiving and the new year, and Nuala O'Connor Kelly had just sent to the printer the first-ever report to Congress by a chief privacy officer. This was it, the historic reporta 40-page description of what O'Connor Kelly had been doing during her first year as the first CPO of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Like addressing concerns about DHS's policies with privacy officers from other countries. Examining the department's growing use of biometrics. And reading irate e-mails from the public about controversial initiatives like the Transportation Security Administration's passenger screening program. If O'Connor Kelly was nervous about the grilling she was likely to get once members of Congress got their mitts on her report, she wasn't letting on. "It's actually a great moment for the [privacy] office to sit back and take stock of where we are now and where we're going for the next two, three, four, five years," says O'Connor Kelly, dashing from one meeting to the next with one of her staff members. At the time, O'Connor Kelly was the only federal government CPO whose position was mandated by law and who was required to file an annual report to Congress. But this seemed on the brink of change. Congress's consolidated 2005 appropriations bill, signed by President Bush in December, contains a provision thatdepending on how the White House's Office of Management and Budget interprets itwould create a handful or more of CPOs at federal agencies.

The head of Calgary's Drop-In Centre says he is astounded by the controversy surrounding the shelter's use of a handprint-based security system, with the latest salvo coming from the province's privacy commissioner on Friday. "People . . . have no idea what we're going through here,"said the centre's executive director Dermot Baldwin, adding he now has three staff off work because of beatings. "We're going to (take) the measures necessary to make this place safe, secure, a good place to come . . . but in order to do that, I've got to keep the bad guys out." The comments came after Alberta's privacy commissioner said he's concerned about a new security system the Drop-In Centre is testing, which includes the scanning of clients' handprints to confirm their identification. Frank Work said Friday the home-less shelter's system of scanning and collecting handprints will likely lead to the creation of a database that will store that information.