You can stop worrying that the forces of autocracy in America are going to require all of us to carry national identification cards. That’s so old school.[…]
”Next Generation Identification,” [a system being developed by the FBI] is intended to “fuse” our fingerprint data with our iris patterns, palm prints, earlobe shapes, facial contours and even the unique ways we walk and speak. This fused, digital image of our persons is to be shared with every police agency in the country... as well as agencies abroad.
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If the very existence of this national ID system doesn’t make you worry about your privacy rights, you might want to know about a quiet little change that the FBI made in the management of such databases in 2004. Officials exempted police databases from a Privacy Act requirement that the personal data stored in them has to be accurate.
That's pretty ambitious. I wonder how they propose to get everybody processed. There must be an old Soviet style thirty-year plan. Oh, wait. Do you suppose I'll soon have to submit to all those measurements if I want a driver's license?
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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