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Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

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Re: Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

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Post by EvanAnderson »

rzerowan wrote: post #67

One thing that i would prefer in biometrics would be that the iris/fingerprints get treated as what they are publicly available and easily obtainable data. At worst using it a a secret key is similar to using your name as a hidden variable for authorisation, whent it sshould strictly be a identification token.And once leaked you cant revoke it . Back on topic , a Gattaca type system is unbelievably bleak and when(not…

It'll be treated just as stupidly as Social Security numbers, and soon we'll have biometric data breaches. >sighAside: Social Security numbers should be public now, too. That ship sailed a long time ago and it should be recognized.

Re: Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

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Post by noduerme »

pixelready wrote: post #19
nozzlegear wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fwiw, I would be unhappy with the Biden and Obama administrations trying to do this as well. For me this has nothing to do with who's in the White House, it's an overreach plain and simple.

100%. Let’s not let partisanship distract us from the omni-presence of the military industrial complex and the authoritarian bent of everyone who’s been in power in the US over the last several decades. Dems will tinker around the edges to make it more palatable, but there’s still: black sites, torture, drone strikes, unjustified wars, installing of puppet governments in sovereign nations, abuse of the commons for pr…

Nit: Quality of life for average Germans went up, not down, once they brought back slavery and started pillaging other countries. If that's the metric we're using to decide what form of government we want, then all bets are off; ethics and morality play no part.

Re: Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

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Post by ghssds »

cynicalsecurity wrote: post #13

EU's recently rejected chat control looks like child's play compared to this. These are some Stasi methods that are going to destroy the US if implemented. Europe already went through creating dossier on citizens in the past, the next immediate step is always fascism. Nothing good comes out of fascism, as the history showed.

>the next immediate step is always fascism.

Chronologicaly the Stasi was built after fascism ended. It operated in East Germany, a communist state.

Re: Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

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Post by pyuser583 »

Yeul wrote: post #61
jedberg wrote: post #15

Did you know that the State of California has a DNA sample from every person born in the state since 1983? It's required by law for the hospital to collect it and give it to the state.

The trick is that you don't elect someone like Donald Trump. I just read on the BBC that the president of America threatened New Yorkers not to vote for Mamdani. People in the Netherlands trust their government because noone in the 500 years of history has ever gotten close to getting dictatorial power unless you count Napoleon and Hitler.

Why does Belgium exist? Is it because the Flemish revolted against Dutch rule?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Revolution

Re: Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

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Post by eru »

jedberg wrote: post #15

Did you know that the State of California has a DNA sample from every person born in the state since 1983? It's required by law for the hospital to collect it and give it to the state.

What about people born outside of a hospital?

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Post by IncreasePosts »

chneu wrote: post #33
jedberg wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is a particularly incendiary way of putting this information out there. Was it inaccurate?

It's very inaccurate. OP made it sound like Cali was genome sequencing everyone born in the state and then storing that. What's really going on is they're doing routine blood tests. So yeah, pretty inaccurate.

Blood isn't stored after routine blood tests?
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