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Friday, January 11, 2008

Atlanta airport to collect fingerprints

International visitors who fly into the U.S. through Atlanta are going to have to give more fingerprints than they used to. Federal officials on Friday unveiled a new fingerprint collection program at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport - the second U.S. airport now using the system. The initiative, called US-VISIT, will collect all fingerprints of each visitor for increased security. In the previous system, screeners took only two fingerprints.

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