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against innocent Americans! Every conservative who believes in constitutional
restraints on government should reject the authoritarian national ID card and the
nonsensical intelligence bill itself.”
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Also required in the bill were “security features.” Many have expressed fears that these
security features could turn out to be “magnetically coded fingerprints and personal records” or
other biometric information.
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Biometrics
One of the proposed solutions to identity theft is biometric identification. Biometrics can
include fingerprints, biometric facial recognition scans, iris scans and a host of other potential
biometric recognition techniques. Facial recognition scans are digital type pictures where various
mathematical equations measure your face. Measurements include the distance between different
points on your face. What is created is a unique identifier for each person.
Once you have had a facial recognition scan you can potentially be identified by any
digital camera that has been tied into the computer database. This could potentially include
digital cameras in government buildings, airports, at intersections, on freeways or wherever they
might be installed. If you were placed on a government pickup list, there would be almost
nowhere you could hide. In my state on a 35 mile stretch over three different freeways, I
estimated there was only one or two places that a car was not in view of a camera.
Nothing is ever fool proof. If some one can develop recognition technology then someone
can also find a way to fool it! If unscrupulous people within the government want to place an
innocent person in prison, biometrics may be an excellent way to put that person at the scene of a
crime. Provided they can fool the system. But before they can do this, they must have your
biometric information on file.
During the last half of 2004, the Department of Homeland Security spent six months
testing prototypes of biometric passports. The biometric information is stored on chip within the
passport. A chip like this could be used in any ID card and could well contain a variety of
personal information. The passport is designed so that data can be read through a touchless
system. Andrew Brandt of PC magazine writes: “Unfortunately, the personal information is
stored in unencrypted form. Worse, touchless technology might let someone with the right
equipment read your personal information at a distance.” Other countries are developing similar
passports with similar standards.
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Smart Cards
Smart Cards are beginning to become more accepted; most reading this book have
probably used one. Smart cards are cards integrated with computer chip technology. They are
more complex than simple magnetic strip cards. They “have built-in microprocessors capable of
processing user data and a storage capacity 80 times higher than common magnetic stripe cards.”
They “can be programmed to make complex, rule-based, data-dependent decisions.”
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The advanced technology involved in smart cards enables them to be used for a variety of
purposes, which include: storage of cash for retail transactions (gift cards, prepaid phone cards,
prepaid gas cards, etc.); secured IDs such as the new US passport and more advanced
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