I was thinking about all the biometric databases out there.
It would seem when we use a finger print scanner to turn on our iPads, use an image of our face to log into devices and using our voice to control things, is a way of giving governments a tool for identifying everyone that uses technology.
And, we pay these tech companies to collect our biometric data that can turn around and sell our biometric access to world’s CIA type of organizations.
And of course we pay companies to collect our DNA to find out who was our great great great great great grandfather was.
And your phone is constantly listening to you, whether you want it to or not.
As Jaron Lanier in The Social Dilemma explains: "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product" (Arduino forum?)
I just tell myself this: I am (legally) responsibly armed and my life just isn't that interesting. Rogue hackers want to steal my info? What are you, the low self esteem hacker?
Really? It was Jaron Lanier that that saying comes from?
I forgot all about that guy: he was really well known in the early days of Virtual Reality. I saw him give a talk at the Javits Center in NYC a loooong time ago: I must have been just a year or two out of college. Now he's all but dropped off the face of the earth.
Meh. Do you know how many times my daughters had to be fingerprinted and officially put in assorted databases just to be teachers?
Or to get a driver's license?
"Governments" don't need to get your biometric data by nefarious means; they already have it.
Already true nearly fifty years ago. You are just hearing about it more because increasing numbers of people indoctrinated into holding corporate or state information are liars-for-profit and divulging information previously held tightly. I would gladly have a scannable chip if my life was simplified. No more paperwork, ever, just hold the reader to your chip and done. No more credit cards, cash, currency, tax forms, bills, banks, queues. Just get what you want and go home. Mind you, it won't be some Project Hub / Instructables, copy/paste, potassium sensor, but an all-entangled, all combined, cure-all for the waste of time that money causes. I gave a gift of a "lift pass in a wrist-watch" a few decades ago... it worked in the entire town - lift passes, bar, cafe, downtown restaurants, and probably would have worked at the doctor, if that was needed. Apply that to every house, car, airline ticket I had to waste hours listening to elevator music... or powerless clowns dictating if I got service or not depending if I smiled and showered them with compliments... I would be decades younger right now. That is not saying I invite government to tell me what to think... far from it... I want the speed of light to determine when I own my house or pay my taxes or buy a drank. Leaves more time for blink without delay. Time? What's time to a pig?
REVELATIONS: Then it compels all, small and great, rich and poor, free men and slaves, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads . . . .
It’s happening, but I’ll be gone in 15 so I won’t worry about it.
Got to go and purchase my COSTCO membership so I can buy food.
My brother told me he was doing a DNA ancestry search. I told him he didn't have my permission. I reminded him that by submitting his DNA he as also submitting mine as they will be closely similar. You only need to have a relative submit their DNA to a database and effectively yours has been submitted.
about all the biometric databases out there.
