retirement spends Khalid Bahaji's spur

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