Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

As a cybersecurity engineer holy lmao bad idea.

You think identity theft is bad with socials?

You think fraud is bad with credit cards?

Jesus fuck, y’all.

DEF CON 37 - “Eye-Spy: Building Convincing Synthetic Iris Data for Fun and Profit”

I had a student visa to study in the UK like 6 ish years ago. They scanned my face. (A literal box I had to put my face in.) My fingers. My palms. Both hands. My iris too I believe with the face scanner. I can’t recall if they took a blood sample but I don’t think so. Surprisingly.

That was required. And I recall having to go to st. Louis to get it done (nearest big city at the time).

Then once I arrived in Britain. I was told I had like 10 days or something to check in at the school and get scanned again to verify my identity.

I felt it was rather invasive.

But it was either agree or not get my school visa. So.

A few years later the state of Illinois started making it mandatory to get your driver’s license photo without glasses. To scan your face.

They have been collecting this data for a while now.

They absolutely are using it for imperfect, highly inaccurate, facial recognition software. To pin crimes on innocent people.

Uncle Sam? Nah, republicans.

NO.

Nope

Altman talked to Trump about One World?

Edit: nope, but this great idea is definitely going to be copied in Europe now that it’s palatable in the US surveillance state. First they mocked China and now they are copying them.

In about 2008 I was flying to New Zealand via LAX for a refuelling stop. We did not go through passport control but the US decided to take our finger prints and retinal scans. I am still furious.