We just wanna scan your eyeballs, what's so wrong about that?
Heathrow Airport has started conducting trials of biometric security:
Travellers will be able to bypass long queues if they have their fingerprints biometrically scanned, while face and eye scans will be introduced soon.
Goody! If you're not a criminal, why do you care if the authorities have your fingerprints? I can't imagine anything going wrong with that! Some nervous nellies can, of course:
Simon Davies, of privacy watchdog, Privacy International, said: "The Home Office still hasn't got the message from international research that biometrics are extremely unstable and unreliable."
Silly privacy person, don't you know? They only like science when it lets them invade our privacy, not when it tells them not to.
Besides, it's not like fingerprint identification has ever gone horribly, horribly wrong.
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In other Unsettling Tech news, crowd control may soon mean making you feel like your skin's on fire thanks to the Air Force's new Active Denial System weapon. But you'll feel better really soon! And any corneal damage should heal in 24 hours.
The idea is that this weapon will make you go away - aside from its acronym, ADS, it's called the "Goodbye Weapon." But as another techie notes, what happens when this is used on a crowd of people who then all try to get away from the searing pain?
And how long before it's being used in inappropriate situations, on nonviolent, fleeing, or incarerated people, basically as a means of torture, like Tasers?
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In amusing abuse-of-power news, a principal suspended a student for refusing to join his druggie-busting Narc program. Apparently it's not the first time he's threatened suspension to make kids hang out in the bathrooms and the parking lot to try to catch drug users.
As a result of the suspension, which began Friday, the student missed a meeting with recruiters who had visited the school to discuss a scholarship opportunity, the suit contends.
The suit seeks an injunction against the school board and unspecified monetary damages for emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life and the loss of a potential scholarship. It contends that requiring the student to seek out potential drug users could put the student in danger.
Ahahahha. That little dictator is so going down.
Travellers will be able to bypass long queues if they have their fingerprints biometrically scanned, while face and eye scans will be introduced soon.
Goody! If you're not a criminal, why do you care if the authorities have your fingerprints? I can't imagine anything going wrong with that! Some nervous nellies can, of course:
Simon Davies, of privacy watchdog, Privacy International, said: "The Home Office still hasn't got the message from international research that biometrics are extremely unstable and unreliable."
Silly privacy person, don't you know? They only like science when it lets them invade our privacy, not when it tells them not to.
Besides, it's not like fingerprint identification has ever gone horribly, horribly wrong.
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In other Unsettling Tech news, crowd control may soon mean making you feel like your skin's on fire thanks to the Air Force's new Active Denial System weapon. But you'll feel better really soon! And any corneal damage should heal in 24 hours.
The idea is that this weapon will make you go away - aside from its acronym, ADS, it's called the "Goodbye Weapon." But as another techie notes, what happens when this is used on a crowd of people who then all try to get away from the searing pain?
And how long before it's being used in inappropriate situations, on nonviolent, fleeing, or incarerated people, basically as a means of torture, like Tasers?
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In amusing abuse-of-power news, a principal suspended a student for refusing to join his druggie-busting Narc program. Apparently it's not the first time he's threatened suspension to make kids hang out in the bathrooms and the parking lot to try to catch drug users.
As a result of the suspension, which began Friday, the student missed a meeting with recruiters who had visited the school to discuss a scholarship opportunity, the suit contends.
The suit seeks an injunction against the school board and unspecified monetary damages for emotional distress, loss of enjoyment of life and the loss of a potential scholarship. It contends that requiring the student to seek out potential drug users could put the student in danger.
Ahahahha. That little dictator is so going down.