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The End of Privacy: Entire City to Track People With Public Eye Scanners
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| Endlesswave |
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Imagine a public eye scanner that can identify 50 people per minute, in motion. Now imagine that the government install these scanner systems all across an entire city. Or don't imagine it, because it's already happening, right now.
The City of Leon, Mexico, is doing exactly that, installing real time iris scanners from biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. These scanners don't require people to stop and put their eyes in front of a camera. They work in real time, as people walk, like this:
There are different kinds of machines being installed across Leon, from large scanners—capable of identifying 50 people per minute in motion— to smaller ones—like the EyeSwipe in the video above—that range from 15 to 30 people per minute. These devices are being installed in public places, like train and bus stations, and connected to a database that will track people across the city.
City officials and proponents of the system are hoping that public retinal scans will stop crime and fraud. According to Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers:
If you've been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you're a known shoplifter, for example, you won't be able to go into a store without being flagged. Certainly for others, boarding a plane will be impossible.
The retinal scanning of Leon's one million population has started already with its convicted criminals. Citizens with no criminal records have been offered the opportunity to "voluntarily" scan their eyes. This, however, is just the beginning. According to Carter, everyone in the planet should be connected to the iris tracking system in 10 years:
In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris. Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected within the next 10 years.
Whop knows how specific/accurate this thing is.
Apparently in Florida and in the UK they have tried it and it was nowhere near as successful as they had thought it might be. |
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| chinamon |
| if it doesnt interfere with my daily routine and can protect our citizens from retard bombers or whatever then im all for it. |
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| Endlesswave |
Some people go with your way of thinking, some don't.
I'd say that's the wrong way to tackle these kinds of security threats.
There was a documentary I saw parts of once where they were interviewing people who knew about terrorist bombings etc back in the 80s in certain places.
THey were looking for solutions etc, one of the interviewees said that things were so hardcore that the only way was to let each side kill eachother bc terrorism would just lead to that anyway. Was pretty crazy. |
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| VDub |
That was in a movie...
The Island?? |
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| Endlesswave |
| quote: | Originally posted by VDub
That was in a movie...
The Island?? |
I dunno? It looked like a documentary to me...like 'the national' kind of a thing. |
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| Dior Homme |
I just finished writing an essay on the privacy of cctv cameras and its invasion on privacy. its good and bad but we are inevitably being led into a big brother/surveillance society.
this iris scanning thing is pretty intense, but someone will always be watching like in london. where people are filmed on average 300 times a day. a lot of the research i did was startling and really interesting from two view points. |
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| Abercrombie |
| all your face are belong to us |
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| chinamon |
| all i know is i love having cctv at my house. |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
if it doesnt interfere with my daily routine and can protect our citizens from retard bombers or whatever then im all for it. |
lol all in the name of "safety"
and how will this stop "retard bombers" exactly? by the time this scans them and reports them, and by the time security forces react to it the bomber will go BOOM. All this is is just another way of stripping citizens of their rights, privacies, etc etc. Of course, this IS in Mexico, so it's a little different. |
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| cammaxwell |
| Well, it's important to note that you can't be identified until you've committed a crime and have supplied your scan to authorities. Just as DNA samples are collected now. Sure, if you committed a crime they could probably go back through the scans and find yours like a finger print pr also DNA, but for people these isn't being identified at all. Similar to being reordered on video really... |
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| Brennen |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
if it doesnt interfere with my daily routine and can protect our citizens from retard bombers or whatever then im all for it. |
"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin. |
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Brennen
"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither" - Benjamin Franklin. |
ben franklin. lol |
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