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http://www.fastcompany.com/1683572/...ing-and-the-future-of-biometric-security

FastCompany is a well known, well respected magazine that tracks companies that are doing well and will be the up&comers in business. So it's not a hoax or conspiracy theory.

Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother
BY Austin CarrWed Aug 18, 2010
We've all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to work to mass transit to the privacy of their own homes. The technology is here. I've seen it myself. It's seen me, too, and scanned my irises.
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. That will help law enforcement revolutionize the way we live -- not to mention marketers.
"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.
Leon is the first step. To implement the system, the city is creating a database of irises. Criminals will automatically be enrolled, their irises scanned once convicted. Law-abiding citizens will have the option to opt-in.
When these residents catch a train or bus, or take out money from an ATM, they will scan their irises, rather than swiping a metro or bank card. Police officers will monitor these scans and track the movements of watch-listed individuals. "Fraud, which is a $50 billion problem, will be completely eradicated," says Carter. Not even the "dead eyeballs" seen in Minority Report could trick the system, he says. "If you've been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you're a known shoplifter, for example, you won't be able to go into a store without being flagged. For others, boarding a plane will be impossible."
GRI's scanning devices are currently shipping to the city, where integration will begin with law enforcement facilities, security check-points, police stations, and detention areas. This first phase will cost less than $5 million. Phase II, which will roll out in the next three years, will focus more on commercial enterprises. Scanners will be placed in mass transit, medical centers and banks, among other public and private locations.
The devices range from large-scale scanners like the Hbox (shown in the airport-security prototype above), which can snap up to 50 people per minute in motion, to smaller scanners like the EyeSwipe and EyeSwipe Mini, which can capture the irises of between 15 to 30 people per minute.
I tested these devices at GRI's R&D facilities in New York City last week. It took less than a second for my irises to be scanned and registered in the company's database. Every time I went through the scanners after that--even when running through (because everybody runs, right, Tom Cruise?) my eyes were scanned and identified correctly. (You can see me getting scanned on the Hbox in the video below. "Welcome Austin," the robotic voice chimes.)
For such a Big Brother-esque system, why would any law-abiding resident ever volunteer to scan their irises into a public database, and sacrifice their privacy? GRI hopes that the immediate value the system creates will alleviate any concern. "There's a lot of convenience to this--you'll have nothing to carry except your eyes," says Carter, claiming that consumers will no longer be carded at bars and liquor stores. And he has a warning for those thinking of opting out: "When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in."
This vision of the future eerily matches Minority Report, and GRI knows it. "Minority Report is one possible outcome," admits Carter. "I don't think that's our company's aim, but I think what we're going to see is an enviroment well beyond what you see in that movie--minus the precogs, of course."
When I asked Carter whether he felt the film was intended as a dystopian view of the future of privacy, he pointed out that much of our private life is already tracked by telecoms and banks, not to mention Facebook. "The banks already know more about what we do in our daily life--they know what we eat, where we go, what we purchase--our deepest secrets," he says. "We're not talking about anything different here--just a system that's good for all of us."
One potential benefit? Carter believes the system could be used to intermittently scan truck drivers on highways to make sure they haven't been on the road for too long.
threshold in a Target or Walmart and actually make the purchase. You start to see the entire life cycle of marketing."
So will we live the future under iris scanners and constant Big Brother monitoring? According to Carter, eye scanners will soon be so cost-effective--between $50-$100 each--that in the not-too-distant future we'll have "billions and billions of sensors" across the globe.
Goodbye 2010. Hello 1984.


So, you gonna "opt IN" ???

I did my level best to convince my barber that those are "9's!!" I had to switch barbers.

Short answer...no. Stuff like this has been floated time and again. Hopefully enough right-thinking people are still around that it will get the kibosh. I see a whole lot of privacy issues here. That said, I fail to see how it is the mark of the beast. For one thing, there is no "mark". It reads biological markers which are already existent. In fact, they could scan your iris, if done quickly, before you even were aware of it. Possibly... As opposed to computer chips under the skin, which an argument could and was made for being such, I don't understand where you come up with the 666. Unless you suspect the iris scanner of somehow imprinting a mark on your eye itself. Maybe I missed something.

�He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.� Revelation 13:16-17

Really?? You can't see the correlation? Hi tech mark?? Put your head back in the hole.

You know anything about correlation? Something can correlate with something else and not be the same thing. IOW sure, there are some similarities but there is no mark being placed on anybody. You ever get a social security number?

Also, you should tell the folks who aren't reading this to put their heads back in holes and not somebody who is discussing it with you. Again, where is the "mark"? I already said this is a bad idea and I'm not participating, but as far as what is discussed in the bible, ask some of the experts here. My guess is that you'll get the same answer as mine.

If you follow the link, that article has been removed. I don't think that is a real article. I mean to say, I think it is a hoax.

I don't think there is any technology yet that can read an iris at a distance while someone is running.

Kind of what I was thinking.

click the other link in the OP and then read related articles at the bottom. I can't figure out why the first link doesn't work.
But Fastcompany is very well known in business circles.

Can't say I see where there is a Mark Of the Beast in this iris scan. However, with any dystopian-like technology, the iris scanner may be just a part of an incremental process. When the parts of a process are looked at individually, they don't seem very menacing. Its when the REST of the process is identified and all of it put together, that the big picture becomes obvious.
So, maybe more will be revealed in the near future.

The more of this schit that becomes part of this society, the less I want to have anything to do with it.

YMMV....

Check my profile; I still want to know how I ended up as member "666" here on the Camp Fire!!

dang who knew Ole Pete is the debul! Twas bad enough of just being Welsh Pete...but dang this takes it to a whole new level! (grin)

After the blessed hope of 1Thes 4, it will be something to avoid with all diligence.

Come on, give the Welsh a break... We're not *that* bad!

Pete is Satan and Isaac is his helper.

Only on weekends when I get to dress up....

Sorry, my mistake....Thats my other persona!!

The only thing I can figure, Pete, is that you typed this from the pub and that first pint of Guinness has started to kick in?

Yeah I love the guys arrogance in the article about those choosing to opt out. I say a big FU to him.