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Do you trust your retinal scan info and fingerprints to be kept secure by the government contractor who had the lowest bid? Just like the scanners that weren't
by chrsstrm 14y ago
Do you trust your retinal scan info and fingerprints to be kept secure by the government contractor who had the lowest bid? Just like the scanners that weren't supposed to be saving images? Reading through the article I just kept thinking, here it is, Minority Report style monitoring. Who is going to end up with my scan data and exploit it in the name of "targeted marketing?"
And putting these current scanners in a tunnel still doesn't make them any less intrusive or more effective.
- ericabiz 14y ago"Who is going to end up with my scan data and exploit it in the name of 'targeted marketing?'" I'm not worried about "targeted marketing" so much (heck, Facebook knows way more about the average person than this database would), but more about hacking and this being a target for potential thieves. Like a whole new form of "identity theft." Of course, giving up this information is "voluntary", but if the cost of not giving it up is having to get to the airport 3 hours ahead of your flight to stand in line the entire time, the government will suddenly have access to a whole lot of people's personal information.
- chrsstrm 14y agoSure, it will be voluntary at first, and then eventually become the only way to board a plane/train/boat. At that point, someone will suppose that if our scans are good enough for the government to identify us for something so crucial, why can't we also use it for ID/driver's license/form of secure payment/house key/etc? After this has been established, yes, biometric identity theft will be an issue. We'll see a similar situation just like a US SSN - no one needs it but the IRS to collect taxes, yet everyone asks for it because it is the government's only way to uniquely identify a singular person.