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Who would fund the biometric scanning equipment in public libraries?
Travellers in Australian airports could be forced to undergo invasive searches such as iris, thermal or biometric scanning without key privacy safeguards under proposed laws.
Various federal, state and local law enforcement agencies have discussed biometric scanning, and many have even spent money on hand-held devices.
Reetika Khera worries that Aadhaar, the Indian national identification system that assigns a 12-digit number to citizens and verifies their identities through biometric scanning, has morphed from a transformative innovation for welfare delivery into an invasion of privacy.
The Kinect 2.0 is included in the £429 price tag, Microsoft's all-seeing Big Brother eye (with Biometric Scanning that can monitor your heartbeat), but it isn't the only thing they're offering.
In the course of studying how biometric scanning could be used to authenticate the identities of people who sought admission to secure buildings, innovators like Joseph Atick realized that the same technology could be used to pick suspects or license plates out of a crowd.
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"You come in to get your photo taken and we're comparing it to the photo of you that we already have using a biometric scan," he said.
And when they ask you to pop along for your biometric scans, don't, please, say "I have nothing to hide, so I have nothing to fear".
Under guidelines established in September 2009, all army and police recruits must undergo criminal background checks, drug screening and biometric scans as part of an eight-step vetting process.
Plans for large-scale projects to incorporate biometric scans into passports, identity cards and visas are now under way in several countries (see article).
Mr. Hatfield said it would be similar to the Inspass program in that travelers would voluntarily sign up for a card, undergo a background check and possibly submit to some type of biometric scan to expedite the security screening process.
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