Highspeed Biometric Iris Scanners
Sept 23, 2008 — Sarnoff Corporation today announced it has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop and demonstrate a high speed biometric capture technology solution for iris-based identification. The system will be designed to be ruggedized for field use and quickly deployable.
Will you like this kind of future?
Doesn’t matter. If it’s coming, it’s coming. Can I do anything to prevent it? No. Would I like it? No.
I hear the next thing is scanning a shopping cart with your supermarket loyalty card. Then as you go up and down the aisles, the prices change based on your previous shopping habits.
“Oh, look! Brand A is .30 less that Brand B!” As the cart moves away, Brand A becomes .10 greater than B for the non-loyal shopper.
In Sweden students will now be fingerprinted (scanned) when coming into cafeteria. They actually laughed it off and said it’s much more convenient than cafeteria cards they kept losing.
In the last few months I’m rebelling against loyalty programs and paying for everything cash and not scanning cards for points 🙂 It doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things but I prefer it this way now.
Feeling of privacy is hard to explain and I think people don’t value it enough.
Your idea is not far-fetched at all.