38 Online computer services, available through global networks, to allow access to especially developed databases, oriented to the fields of personal biometric and biographic information, customer information, credit references, social security, driving information, marketing and sales promotion information; telecommunications, namely, client-server communication services between special-purpose portable computers and dedicated server computers in a central facility, whereby text documents and image data are transmitted electronically upon an operator command initiating communications over available electronic means, and transmitting the accumulated information to a central facility, utilizing security provisions such as authentication and data encryption, either through modem, Ethernet, satellite, or wireless local area networking means, where such information is securely stored in accordance to a set of predefined conventions; telecommunications, namely, client-server communication services between portable computers and dedicated server computers in a central facility, whereby text documents and image data are sought and retrieved in the databases of said central facility and/or of interconnected similar facilities, transmitted electronically upon an operator command initiating communications over available electronic means, and transmitting the accumulated information to the client computer, utilizing security provisions such as authentication and data encryption, either through modem, Ethernet, satellite, or wireless local area networking means, in order to authenticate the identity of persons whose data have been previously registered; providing multiple-user access to a communications network; remote database access services made available through secure telecommunications means for online access to computer database resources toward the processing of queries about identity authentication, including biometric, biographic, financial, and other types of personal data; transmission of voice, data, images, audio, video, and other information via telecommunications networks; telecommunications services, namely, providing e-mail notification alerts via the internet to others in the field of identity authentication; providing remote access services to custom databases residing in either shared or dedicated servers, accessible through security software designed to grant controlled access to said databases through global networks