Connecticut To Store Biometric Information

AugstWest writes: "I just got word that when I renew my driver's license, I will have to submit to allowing the CT DMV to store biometric information, as well as smile for facial recognition software from Viisage to be able to continue driving. I am so appalled, I don't even know where to begin. With all of the national law enforcement agencies opening up their databases to each other, is this the first step in taking a surveillance society to a tracking society?"

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Great Idea!

[H-1B_visas_suck]

Now we can maybe do something about all these illegal aliens moving around our country, either driving down our wages and disappearing our medical benfits, or soaking up our tax dollars through free emergency rooms births, and just in general third-worldizing our country.

The only people who really have anything to fear from this are crooks and the powerful elite of the upper crust.

Bring on Big Brother....

What do you have to hide?

[lophophore]

I don't see what all the fuss ia about. A secure, easily authenticable ID is not something to be feared, unless you are a criminal.

I have nothing to hide. Even the dreaded (by some) national ID plan does not bother me in the least.

Explain to me how and why a secure, easily authenticatable ID is going to reduce or degrade any constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in this country. See, you can't.

I *want* a biometrically authenticatable ID system, I want to have the FAA and airport screeners know I am not a risk so I can go through the airport security quickly. I want the INS and other federal agencies to be able to quickly identify and deport people who would harm my country. There is nothing to fear from this, unless you have something to hide.

Re:Undue Restrictions

[Chasuk]

I repeat:

Can you provide an example of my supposed arrogance? You can't, because the example doesn't exist.

I am obviously superior to you, at least insofar as your demonstrated literacy. Now, if you continue this dialogue, you will be able to quote the former sentence as an example of my arrogance, because that is exactly what it is, and well-earned arrogance, at that.

Happily, your ignorance _is_ cureable. Translation: you needn't feel intimidated forever.

Just for your information, the transportation methods of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries include bipedal locomotion, and probably will do so for many centuries to come. Translation: walking isn't obsolete quite yet.