Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico

TheRealPacmanJones writes "Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls 'the most secure city in the world.' In a partnership with Leon, one of the largest cities in Mexico with a population of more than a million, GRI will fill the city with eye-scanners. The scanners will help revolutionize law enforcement not to mention marketing."

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Secure?

[WrongSizeGlass]

'the most secure city in the world.'

Not if you live, work or visit there. They need basic protections from drug gangs and their corrupt government, military and police. They don't need these scanners, they need millions of bullet proof vests.

Re:Secure?

[happyfeet2000]

After throwing the PRI out, PAN, a conservative party, took over. A fundamentalist sector of which, El Yunque, is the one calling the shots in the state. An example of the type of society they have in mind is the sentencing of Araceli Camargo to 26 years of prision for an spontaneous abortion when she was 18 yers old after a very unfair and corrupt filled trial. The punishment for abortion in this state is 3 years in prision, in order to increase the penalty she was accused of murdering a relative. The fiscal attorney had all the support from the government, so no chance she would walk away free. If you read the records of the process you'll find every dirty trick on the book. 30 more ladies have already been sentenced to similar terms, and 166 more are waiting for the trial, if you can call this medieval farce a trial. Now imagine giving this kind of government total power over your privacy...shudder...

Luckily....

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I'm sure that "Global Rainmakers Inc."(Seriously, could you have come up with something creepier?) have a foolproof plan for making sure that half the people involved aren't on one or more cartel payrolls, using the systems for tracking and assassinations, before the hardware is even in the field...

Re:what a joke

[turbotroll]

Much the same may be said of the United States. Out of seven major signs of being a third world country with a first world public image, it is exhibiting seven.

An obligatory link: 10 Signs The U.S. is Becoming a Third World Country

Re:I think I can speak for all of us when I say

[TheNarrator]

"In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris," says Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers. Before coming to GRI, Carter headed a think tank partnership between Bank of America, Harvard, and MIT. "Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected [to the iris system] within the next 10 years," he says.

But wait there's more, It will also be the lower 64 bits of your ipv6 address whenever you do anything online. You don't think we made 128 bits of Ip space and wasted all that bandwidth for nothing, do you?

Re:Phooey.

[tepples]

More scanners will result in more sales, until the governments mandate you must not hide your eyes.

It wouldn't be too far removed from France's burqa ban.

Re:I think I can speak for all of us when I say

[chord.wav]

So unabomber was right after all uh?

For the record, I don't approve his methods. But his manifesto is a good read.

Re:Well

[MidnightBrewer]

This article strikes me as a bit far-fetched. I'm curious to see if there's any news of this going anywhere in the future.

BTW, the GRI website is under the confusing name of hoyosgroup.com, and seems a bit fishy. No actual photos of staff (just generic clipart-ish silhouettes), and their claims of being able to capture a person's iris at over fifty feet moving at 1.5m/sec? Really? What kind of camera do they use for that? Just sayin'.