The 'face off' between biometrics and privacy

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If Hollywood is any guide, privacy is likely to come off worst, suggests Coffin Mew's Guy Cartwright

In the 1997 film Face/Off, FBI agent Sean Archer (played by Nicholas Cage) has his face transplanted onto homicidal sociopath Castor Troy (played by John Travolta) while Troy is in a coma. Troy wak...

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