Smile! You've just been iris scanned.

It’s not a secret if you can read and search the internet that the U.S. Military, Border Patrol and prison system has and been utilizing biometric technology such as Iris scanners and facial recognition technology for some time. With the recent underwear bombing scare and body scanner controversy and the terrorism threat in general. It is only a matter of time before you see these technologies being used on you while your driver’s license, passport or any type of state or federal ID photo is being taken and your information being added to IAFIS. Reader software technology is close to the point of being able to read or scan you on the move. Big brother is going to take advantage of the public’s terrornioa once again to incorporate yet another control on our lives. If abused which it probably will be you can count on seeing these at the same places you will see body scanners, as well as toll booths, implemented into newer surveillance cameras. The topic has been touch on before with an older thread [url=http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread529068/pg1]here[url/] but I think today its relevance is much more apparent. Part of me feels that this is a great technology that has tremendous capability of stunting terrorism and crime and other part of me feels that the Minority Report scenario is coming to fruition faster than I can comfortably accept. Years ago people were afraid of being finger printed, worried about RFID chips. Now people are too complacent to care. What do you think?



I have post a few links to related articles here...there are plenty more out there

[url=http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4246877]Link[url/]
[url=http://ir.l1id.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=208028]Link[url/]
[url=http://www.forensic-evidence.com/site/ID/ID_iris_jarvis.html]Link[url/]
[url=http://www.cylab.cmu.edu/research/chronicles/2008/savvides.html]Link[url/]

Biometrics is a fact of life now.

Just to log onto this computer "Verisign" scanned my face instead of entering a password.

reply to post by smoke screen


Well, it boils down to...

Either you accept it, or you rebel against it.
I've noticed you have to have a passport to go to ANY country now.
A few years ago, a US citizen could travel to Canada freely.
Now, you need a passport.
Strange. How Big brother can control where you travel now.
Little by little, they WILL control everything.
Add these technologies to passports and you have ultimate control.
*evil laugh*

Oh yeah and your [url/] is backwards. It should be [/url]...slash before the "url".

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Thanks I am trying to do this from a cell phone... my internet connection on it very shaky at best...

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The Army and Marine Corps is using this technology with great success in Iraq and Afghanistan. Usually scanning entire villages, finger printing and gathering family data, names, and aliases’. A few months down the road they will run into some of the same individuals they have scanned before and they give different names, age and family information; that raises a red flag that they are attempting to hide something causing the interrogators to come down on them. From what I am told at first they didn’t realize what was happening to them during the scan, they were told they were just having their picture taken. I guess in the long run it is a good sound idea to track and monitor people in this way, it’s just a shame that the world has to resort to these types of tracking and data mining tactics.