FBI wants massive biometrics database Options

[Spectatrix]

Scary stuff.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/02/04/fbi.biometrics/index.html

The FBI already has 55 million sets of fingerprints on file. In coming years, the bureau wants to compare palm prints, scars and tattoos, iris eye patterns, and facial shapes. The idea is to combine various pieces of biometric information to positively identify a potential suspect.

[The Fanatic]

Change is always incremental, especially within the political culture that we inhabit. If you give authorities and inch today they will surely take a mile later on down the road.

The FBI says it hasn't been saving the fingerprints for those checks, but that may change. The FBI plans a so-called "rap-back" service in which an employer could ask the FBI to keep the prints for an employee on file and let the employer know if the person ever has a brush with the law. The FBI says it will first have to clear hurdles with state privacy laws, and people would have to sign waivers allowing their information to be kept.

This is an alarming possibility which undermines the rights that individuals in America hold so dear. I don't want the government to map out every inch of my body in order to protect this nation from "terrorists" and other undesirables that may threaten the so called order. History repeats itself. One eras communist is anothers terrorist, it is all a carefully constructed guise to yank the freedoms that we are entitled. At what cost? I don't claim to be a conspiracy nut but something in the milk is not white. These expressed intentions couple with new developments in the field of technology and a national ID card or REAL ID Act. I do believe that one day Americans will be implanted with a chip that holds all of their identifying information, credit accounts, bank accounts, biographical information etc. synced up with a larger computer database that will track, monitor, and dictate every hour or our life.


P.S. Think of the power that advertisers will hold! They will be able to buy time on personal microchips from the government and will subconsciously imprint products in our dreams!

This post has been edited by The Fanatic: Feb 4 2008, 04:19 PM