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Iris Scanners in Canadian Airports
Ian_Bailey writes "The Toronto Star is reporting that the first biometrics (Iris-scanning specifically) devices in airport will be in place in Toronto and Vancouver starting in March. These devices are meant to speed-up the check-in process for frequent travellers, without compromising security. It is stressed that privacy advocates have nothing to worry about, because they are completely voluntary and cannot be used to scan without a person's knowledge, but there is a brief note about using it in the future for staff."
If I take them out, they'll Xray those too, and I never had to look for a lost contact on an Xray belt before, the floor is bad enough.
The next thing we'll see are precogs preventing violent crimes.
There's never enough when you have too little
Everyone who has seen the "Demolition Man" knows how to bypass these things...
-- Reality checks don't bounce.
... Well we've only got an SGI Indigo2 in our office. If I needed to take it on a trip to and from Canada, would it be compatible with their Iris scanners? ;-)
It lets them re-assign security staff from lazily eyeballing baby-Jesus lovin' white folks to their number one priority, "random" stop-and-searches of shifty moon-god worshipping Arabiac-looking types.
That's the best case scenario. The real world scenario is that they just sack some staff and return to business as usual... until the next hijacking.
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Except pedestrians and cyclists...
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