>There’s loads of value in these new biometrics if they turn out to work well. And terrible consequences if it is used badly, AND IT WILL BE USED BADLY. Basic

>There’s loads of value in these new biometrics if they turn out to work well. And terrible consequences if it is used badly, AND IT WILL BE USED BADLY. Basically is the barcode tatoo of the Nazis. Something that serves to identify you when they want(on the street, bus station, even using telescopes or 500 Megapixel aerial cameras) without you giving your consent, all the time, but automated with computers. I have actually worked on systems like that, IKEA for example tracks their customers with cameras, and it is extremely creepy. I am from Spain and I was drinking moderate alcohol since I was 11 years old, like wine and Cider on the table with my parents. not a big deal. Most of my friends did the same and none of them is alcoholic. On the contrary, we did not need to get drunk in order to feel adult, like all the UK, french, American and german kids(18-22 years old) drinking and fucking in Magalluz like there is no tomorrow because they were repressed all their lives. Your comment portray two main ideas: 1.This is good because "Think of the children". 2.All the problems are technical. Idea number 1 is consequence of a puritan idea of the world, that is debatable. Idea number 2 is the CSI idea, totally wrong. Having worked in security, most security problems are not hackers cracking codes from their computers, but social engineering. Things that happened to us: The boss of a company telling us to improve the security of the company, then this boss using sticky notes with the passwords. Someone telling his-her lover. Prostitutes being hired as spys. Bad people disguised in order to access the system. People on payroll coming from bad guys giving access. In the real world, most problems are not technical. If a kid wants access pornography or alcohol, he will find a way. Like drugs, if demand exist, supply will appear.