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Vietnam To Have Full Biometric Transparency
Vietnam is the first major country to go full biometric transparency. The country with a population of 100 million will go full biometric transparency in 2025.
The Identification Ring from "Sinister Barrier", by Eric Frank Russell, published by Unknown in 1939:
— Bill Christensen (@Technovelgy) December 23, 2024
"...upon its super-hard iridium inner surface were inscriptions too small to be seen with the naked eye; microscopic data giving his name, height, weight, Bertillon… pic.twitter.com/3gIL3Krkx5
In 1939, Eric Frank Russell described an identification ring that contained the most highly detailed biometric information known at the time.
Fans of science fiction writer Jack Vance may recall the tri-type record from The Houses of Iszm, published in 1954.
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