FBI Wants your biometric information

The FBI wants to create a computer database containing people’s biometric information. What is biometric information? Well, your finger prints, palm prints, eye scan, tattoo mappings, etc. This would be very effective for them to “identify suspects”. The FBI should announce the project in the next couple of days which would be a $1 billion, 10 years contract to create the biometric database.

This is far from reaching general agreement: it raise major privacy concerns. I personally really don’t like it. Here’s what Kimberly Del Greco, the FBI’s Biometric Services chief has to say about the project:

[...] important to protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in.

God, that terrorist thing is strong. Can they really do all they want only by saying it’s to protect the country from terrorists? Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, biometric database, what’s next? Every single bloody controversial project is to protect the country from terrorists and to protect freedom. Fear can make people accept anything. Do you really think that’s going to keep the terrorists out? Of course not! That technology is still opened to mistakes and who will suffer from it? Every single honest person. The more I learn about these projects the more I start to think about 9/11 really being an inside job. Most of Daily Common Sense readers know I’m a rational person usually debunking conspiracy theories, but there’s too many things happening since 2001 on the back of terrorists. Anyway, I’m not getting into that, I don’t have a clear opinion about it.

That biometric information database is just one more step to a surveillance society where your every moves are tracked.

What’s next?