Question-and-Answer Session
Unidentified Participant
(inaudible). To me that seems like a solution to the illegal immigration problems, could be a huge market, so I would like you to comment on that, because people say, well, why don’t more employers check well if they didn’t have the needs. But now with this type of technology, it seems like you know if somebody is legal or not, so a very simple thing.
Dr. Nelson Ludlow
If you don’t mind, I will restate the question so that the listeners on the webcast can hear. The question, if I can summarize, it was that what about the legal immigration situation and could we use drivers’ licenses for that? We’ve actually have a small contract from the government to look at a program called the I-9 Registration. If you are an employer, that’s one of the things you are supposed to do is check certain documents for every employee. And how do you do it? Well, the most common one is with the driver’s licenses, one of the documents. And so we are doing that for them to make an automated way that employers can check.
And the really cool part is how do you make them do? Well one way to do it is you have a law. You must do it. Okay, that’s fine the I-9, but the cool part about this is it actually helps protect the company, because now you have a record of the documents that you read and say absolutely, we’ve checked that guys driver’s license and we did so that on this date and here was the information.
So that is a potential thing in the future that we are hoping for and we already do access control systems. We – there is a major air force or an army fort in the Washington DC area and they were doing a test of the system see how they liked it. On the very first day, they cut several illegal aliens that were trying to work on that military base.
Unidentified Participant
But I mean, well just imagine, I mean every market with every employer, not every military base, but hundreds of thousands of customers.
Dr. Nelson Ludlow
What I am excited about is that it has a broad range. When you are trying to look in the software world, you try to build the killer app, the thing that everybody wants to use. It’s hard to find those. Cell phone applications, I mean there are certain ones out there. I am very excited about this because essentially everyone in North America has a driver’s license.
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