Mandela will be among the first recipients of a smart ID card launched by the South African government on Thursday.
In the wake of the September hijackings, a consortium of airlines and airports has proposed issuing smart ID cards linked to biometric markers, carried by anyone willing to sacrifice some privacy in order to avoid travel delays.
It's largely been up to smart ID card manufacturers who are obliged to operate in competitive bidding situations to look for ways to keep smart ID card costs in check.
In the corporate sector hundreds of employers already use omnipresent cameras, motion sensors and smart ID cards an infrastructure that could be easily converted to serve antiterrorist purposes.
Smart ID card designers often lead the pack when it comes to incorporating state-of-art security features into card designs.
The South Korean Government has indicated it wants to start issuing multi-application smart ID cards to its citizens from 2008.
Pet food dispensers already for sale that seek to address overfeeding include the Petmate Le Bistro Portion-Control Automatic Pet Feeder, which uses a timer, as well as the Gatefeeder, a dispenser that uses a Smart ID attached to collars to figure out when to release cat food.
The id of each element was set to be the smart meter id, together with the date and hour during which the consumption occurred.
Mr. Boyd strongly opposes the so-called trusted traveler plan, which would allow passengers who agree to detailed prescreening to carry "smart card" ID's that would allow them expedited passage through airport security.
From 2009, everybody is to be issued with a "smart" biometric ID card, linked to the national register, which will be required for access to public services such as doctors' surgeries, unemployment offices, libraries and the like leaving a new, readily traceable, electronic data-trail.
