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Digital fingerprints, iris scans and facial recognition are some of the biometric technologies that businesses, banks and government agencies are using as a "guaranteed identity check".

But recently the media reported that over 3,000 schools in the UK are also using biometrics for morning registration so that they can check attendance and punctuality.

Even more recently the technology has burst onto the clubbing scene.
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