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On a hot summer day recently, Johnny Johnson, a travelling salesman 100 miles from home, stopped at a Texaco station to casha paycheck because someone here knew his face. Or rather, a certain machine knew his face. Mr. Johnson fed his check into a device that looked like an automated teller machine, and smiled for the pea-sized camera. The device, developed by a check-cashing chain called the Mr. Payroll Corp., compared Mr. Johnson's face with the picture it had on file. They matched and Mr. Johnson was given his cash. This machine is one of a new batch of devices thatidentify people through various bodily characteristics - faces,hands, fingers, eyes, voices, perhaps even smells - using a range of technologies known as biometrics, or the statistical measurement of biological phenomena. Biometrics has long been the province of spy thrillers and gee-whiz prophecies. But until recently it has rarely been used except to guard, say, the entrance to a nuclear plant or sensitive areas at the Central Intelligence Agency. This raises privacy concerns because these devices collect a lot of personal data. Already, there is a growing backlash against the use of fingerprints when issuing drivers licenses and cashing checks. But biometrics also has real potential to protect against thieves and impostors. One of the fastest growing financial crimes is the theftof identity, with a criminal stealing personal information - like aSocial Security number - to tap into someone else's credit or bank account. «You can say that biometrics is inherently personal and there fore inherently violates my privacy,» said Ben Miller, editor of Personal Identification News, a leading trade magazine. «But biometrics can be a phenomenal enhancer of privacy.»