WHAT WILL YOU DO WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER BUY OR SELL WITHOUT SUBMITTING TO BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION
by M M
HUMANS ARE FREE
In some areas of the world, payment systems that require palm scanning or face scanning
are already being tested. We have entered an era where biometric security is being hailed
as the �solution� to the antiquated security methods of the past.
We are being promised that the constant problems that hackers are causing with our credit cards,
bank accounts, ATM machines and Internet passwords will all go away once we switch over to biometric
identification.
And without a doubt, we have some massive security problems that need to be addressed.
But do you really want a machine to read your face or your hand before you are able to buy
anything, sell anything or log on to the Internet?
Do you really want �the system� to be able to know where you are, what you are buying
and what you are doing at virtually all times?
Biometric security systems are being promoted as �cool� and �cutting edge�, but
there is also potentially a very dark side to them that should not be ignored.
In this day and age, identity theft has become a giant problem. Being able to confirm that
you are who you say that you are is a very big deal. To many, biometric security presents
a very attractive solution to this problem.
For example, the following is a brief excerpt from a recent Fox News article entitled �Biometric
security can�t come soon enough for some people��
In a world where nearly every ATM now uses an operating system without any technical
support, where a bug can force every user of the Internet to change the password to
every account they�ve ever owned overnight, where cyber-attacks and identity theft grow
more menacing every day, the ability to use your voice, your finger, your face or some
combination of the three to log into your e-mail, your social media feed or your checking
account allows you to ensure it�s very difficult for someone else to pretend they�re you.
Almost everyone would like to make their identities more secure. Nobody actually wants their bank
accounts compromised or their Internet passwords stolen.
But there is a price to be paid for adopting biometric identification. Your face or your
hand will be used to continually monitor and track everything that you do and everywhere
that you go.
Here is some more from that Fox News article�
Friday, we made Ryan King the most verified man in Brooklyn.
�Verified,� a fingerprint-recognition device chirped back at Ryan after he placed
his finger on the reader.
�Verified,� a facial-recognition device said to Ryan after scanning his face.
Ryan works at the American headquarters for FingerTec, a Malaysian company replacing PINs,
usernames, and typed passwords with fingers and faces we don�t need to memorize.
�You can�t copy someone�s fingerprint unless you chop it off,� Ryan said, �which
wouldn�t work because it has to be attached to a hand.�
For now, biometric security is not being forced on people. If you want to avoid it, you can.
But eventually, once it has been adopted on a widespread basis, banks and government agencies
will start requiring it.
And it is easy to imagine a day when none of us will any longer be able to buy or sell
anything without submitting to biometric identification.
In fact, an �alternative payment method� involving hand scanning is already being tested
in southern Sweden�
Hand scanning has become an alternative payment method for people in a city in southern Sweden,
researchers at Lund University said Monday.
Vein scanning terminals have been installed in 15 shops and restaurants in Lund thanks
to an engineering student who came up with the idea two years ago while waiting in line
to pay.
Some 1,600 people have signed up already for the system, which its creator says is not
only faster but also safer than traditional payment methods.
�Every individual�s vein pattern is completely unique, so there really is no way of committing
fraud with this system,� researcher Fredrik Leifland said in a statement.
�You always need your hand scanned for a payment to go through.�
But before biometric identification is widely used for payment systems, we will probably
see it implemented in a whole bunch of other ways first.
For instance, biometric scanners are already being used in dining halls on college campuses
all across America�
Hand geometry readers have been fairly common on campus for years but more recent deployments
are leveraging fingerprint and even iris biometrics to link students with transactions.
Physical access is the hallmark biometric application but the technology has been gaining
popularity in food service and other sectors to expedite transactions.
The social stigma attached to biometrics is also being lifted, as students are becoming
more comfortable with the technology, says Brian Adoff, executive vice president at NuVision.
The inclusion of a fingerprint scanner on the latest iPhone is just one indication that
the younger generation is comfortable with biometrics.
�Administrators have a greater fear of the technology than students,� says Bob Lemley,
director of software development at the CBORD Group.
�Students are growing up with the technology so they don�t think about it as much as
the older generations.�
Georgia Southern University can attest to that fact. The school deployed iris biometrics
at its dining hall and only two students out of 5,400 refused to enroll, says Richard Wynn,
director of the university�s Eagle Card Program.
Young people tend to be less alarmed by this technology, and so that is where it is being
pushed.
If you can believe it, biometric scanners are even going to be used at Six Flags amusement
park this summer�
A new scanning system at Six Flags sounds like it�s from the future, but the biometric
scanner aims to make faster entrances for season pass holders.
When guests arrive at the front gate for the first time of the season, they will present
their voucher and a scanner processes an image of their fingerprint, assigning a unique set
of numbers that are used to validate the pass holder�s card each visit.
The first visit should take only about 20 seconds to set up the card, as opposed to
the additional time of taking a photo and getting it printed on the card, according
to spokeswoman Elizabeth Gotway.
This kind of reminds me of the new �MagicBands� at Disney parks that I have written about
previously. You have probably seen the television commercials featuring them by now.
Disney seems to think that parents and kids will have no problems wearing RFID tracking
devices that allow them to buy stuff and monitor wherever they go. If you want to see what
Disney has to say about these �MagicBands�, you can do so right here.
Our world is becoming stranger with each passing day.
Incredibly, biometric identification is even being used in Africa to keep track of who
is being vaccinated�
In fact, some biometric solutions are helping solve vaccine delivery issues in Africa which
has been hampered by ineffective tracking and reporting.
Today, a biometric vaccination registry helps to ensure that millions of young children
receive the vaccine that is needed to save their lives.
And by knowing �who� has been vaccinated, these precious life-saving drugs are not wasted
by over-vaccinating some and missing others entirely.
This technology is going to keep spreading, and it is going to become harder and harder
to avoid it.
And it is easy to imagine what a tyrannical government could do with this kind of technology.
If it wanted to, it could use it to literally track the movements and behavior of everyone.
We are already starting to see the establishment of massive biometric databases. One of these
is the FBI�s facial recognition database that is a part of their �Next Generation
Identification� program.
It [was] projected that the FBI compiled 52 million of our �face images� by the year
2015. Given enough time, eventually I am sure that they would have all of our faces in their
computers.
And one day, this kind of technology will likely be so pervasive that you won�t be
able to open a bank account, get a credit card or even buy anything without having either
your hand or your face scanned first.
When that day arrives, what will you do? That is something to
think about.
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