The US State Department wants to gather information on a biometric system that would be used for the government of Mexico.The dept has released an RFI for for a “fully compliant and scalable central biometrics system” that could hook up to the United States' own databases, reported Nextgov.com.Any system would need to be interoperable with Mexico's existing biometric databases.The Mexican biometric system applications are already deployed yet do not communicate with each other,” the RFI said.Details about the purpose of the solicitation-and its eventual use-are sparse, but the document notes its capabilities might involve allowing officers to search databases, verify that an individual has been encountered before, and retrieve an individual's identity based on a biometric identifier.
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