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If you are not familiar with this subject you've got to hear my interview with Michael Trudeau on Preparing for a Cashless Society. We talk about how things are moving toward this, his concerns, and the advancements in using fingerprinting, Smart or ID cards, and other scanning systems that companies eventually will make it possible for you to walk out of the grocery store with your items without going through a check out counter because all the products will have sensors, as well as you, either by card or implanted chip or tatoo that scanners will pick up as you...

PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) -- Face-scanning technology designed to recognize registered sex offenders and missing children has been installed in a Phoenix school in a pilot project that some law enforcement and education officials hope to expand. Two cameras, which are expected to be operational next week, will scan faces of people who enter the office at Royal Palm Middle School. They are linked to state and national databases of sex offenders, missing children and alleged abductors. An officer will be dispatched to the school in the event of a possible match, said Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. "If it works...