The "Big Bro" is watching!

Well, biometric identification is a very useful technique, but guess who is the main user?! The governments have historically invested heavily into the methods to identify and control the population. And the FBI, being the richest and the most technologically advanced (consequently) special service in the world is definitely the leader of this trend.

The FBI claims that their fingerprint database (IAFIS) is the  "largest biometric database in the world",  containing records for over a hundred million people. But that's nothing compared to the agency's plans for Next Generation Identification (NGI), a massive, billion-dollar upgrade that will hold iris scans, photos searchable with face recognition technology, palm prints, and measures of gait and voice recordings alongside records of fingerprints, scars, and tattoos. 

With the costs of digital imaging, plummeting backed with the radical decrease in respectable hardware costs and increase of computer calculation power, the ideas of some fantasy writers and conspiracy theorists is as close to reality as it ever was. As if the currently prevalent cellphone triangulation method was insufficient, in a few years ubiquitous biometric population control may become a reality in North America and Europe.

Knowing some of the security agencies, the personal biometric info may be leaked. And come of the corporates may take an advantage of it! So, folks just be prepared for that. I do not believe that such a future may really be avoided: there will always be some terrorist threat to justify the government spending on such a system and the spying that may ensue.

One piece of advice: Do not be good – be honest!

http://theinternetpost.net/tag/integrated-automated-fingerprint-identification-system/