Wednesday, October 14, 2009

About Face

The system takes seconds to look at chin widths and nose sizes. The expanded technology used on millions of motorist could be rolled out across the USA. The FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System is also getting an upgrade to DNA records, 3-D facial imaging, palm prints and voice scans. [More]
Oh, I'm sorry, I should have given you this link first so you could have it playing in the background...

[Via Ron W]

2 comments:

Kent McManigal said...

Time to bring back bandanas and big hats. Or V's "Guy Fawkes" masks. Or Darth Vader helmets.

Anonymous said...

What we knew has finally been admitted to: the 'digitized photos' and prints taken when you pay your driver license tax just put you in the criminal data base.

Of course there's no law that makes you carry a d/l or 'state issued id card', but it gets harder to buy and sell without one. As noted in Houston, you need one to buy or sell to or from a resale shop, pawn shop or scrapyard...little by little the net tightens...