My guess is that the biggest risk in trying to develop such a system is making something that's completely impractical for the end user.
My guess is that the biggest risk in trying to develop such a system is making something that's completely impractical for the end user.
One side-issue that's caused some of the bloat was the various city-employee unions fighting against biometric scanners for time-in/time-out logging.
Here's some of the sources I used in my study (note the great discussion here on the same topic a while ago):
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/03/26/2010-03-26_city_...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/nyregion/23scanning.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1221068
http://www.nyc.gov/html/opa/html/about/city_time.shtml
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/3/26/juan_gonzalez_ny_pays_...
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.62e273bb0ef1f...