Maggie Vannah, C.L.U.
August 23rd 07, 05:19 AM
The standards will take into account
# emerging technologies like software that determines if two facial images
# belong to the same person, even from composite sketches.
Yep. Even using photographs. More on this later.
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And what does a National ID Card with a Universal Biometric identifier mean?
A number (that is: scanned fingerprint or iris) that cannot be faked.
Unprecedented possibilities for control of the presumed guilty population.
You will be forced to verify yourself for an endlessly ever-growing list of
items.
* Dr. Linda Thompson:
* YOUR STATE IS NEXT AND DON'T THINK OTHERWISE. Sandia and other defense
* contractors, without a war elsewhere, are OUT OF WORK, so they're
* creating job security for themselves by helping fascists wage war in the
* United States on us and our rights!!
*
* Georgia, Texas and Oregon ALREADY require fingerprints for licenses.
> California is already fingerprinting drivers, and many places outside of
> the US are creating identity cards with barcoded information.
>
> Also, AmSouth and Compass Banks will soon introduce fingerprinting of
> people who cash checks and have no account with their bank. This is
> now standard practice in Texas and will soon be nation-wide.
* "Fingerprints Used to Cut Welfare Fraud", by Sandra Blakeslee
* The New York Times, April 6 1992
*
* Los Angelos is the first county in the nation to install an automatic
* fingerprint-identification system for ferreting out welfare cheats.
*
* "We can deliver services faster too," said Eddy Tanaka, director of the
* Los Angelos County Department of Public Social Services.
*
* "We will not share the fingerprints with the police or any other government
* agency."
*
* Intrigued by Los Angelos County's program
# emerging technologies like software that determines if two facial images
# belong to the same person, even from composite sketches.
Yep. Even using photographs. More on this later.
----
And what does a National ID Card with a Universal Biometric identifier mean?
A number (that is: scanned fingerprint or iris) that cannot be faked.
Unprecedented possibilities for control of the presumed guilty population.
You will be forced to verify yourself for an endlessly ever-growing list of
items.
* Dr. Linda Thompson:
* YOUR STATE IS NEXT AND DON'T THINK OTHERWISE. Sandia and other defense
* contractors, without a war elsewhere, are OUT OF WORK, so they're
* creating job security for themselves by helping fascists wage war in the
* United States on us and our rights!!
*
* Georgia, Texas and Oregon ALREADY require fingerprints for licenses.
> California is already fingerprinting drivers, and many places outside of
> the US are creating identity cards with barcoded information.
>
> Also, AmSouth and Compass Banks will soon introduce fingerprinting of
> people who cash checks and have no account with their bank. This is
> now standard practice in Texas and will soon be nation-wide.
* "Fingerprints Used to Cut Welfare Fraud", by Sandra Blakeslee
* The New York Times, April 6 1992
*
* Los Angelos is the first county in the nation to install an automatic
* fingerprint-identification system for ferreting out welfare cheats.
*
* "We can deliver services faster too," said Eddy Tanaka, director of the
* Los Angelos County Department of Public Social Services.
*
* "We will not share the fingerprints with the police or any other government
* agency."
*
* Intrigued by Los Angelos County's program