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- nkleffman, on 07/01/2008, -2/+36If you're not breaking the law what do you have to hide?
EVERYTHING. - mojo4126, on 06/30/2008, -0/+25I assumed there was semen on everything! And there was some sort of semen database that had every bad guy's semen in it.
- specialK16, on 06/30/2008, -1/+24Well, if you are looking for your Minority Report you can always transplant your eyes.
- illustrick, on 07/01/2008, -1/+18good bye America hello Britian
- MarkHunneyman, on 07/01/2008, -0/+17Rule of thumb: never trust anything the FBI says is "good for you."
- D4N747, on 06/30/2008, -1/+15It's hard for me to take a side on this. On one hand, you have a system that claims to be nonintrusive and "adheres to very strict privacy guidelines, taking more biometrics from the same people [the FBI] was always authorized to take fingerprints from." It would make law enforcement officer's jobs easier and allow for faster processing. However, "very strict privacy guidelines" could potentially change into something more malicious without much notice, and then we're just a step closer to that wonderful dystopian future that all the movies like to conjure up for us nowadays.
- qbix, on 07/01/2008, -1/+15The Orwellian States of America. Seriously, how long will it take before people demonstrate they've have had enough of this *****?
- OmegaWolf, on 06/30/2008, -2/+13If they only took samples from convicted criminals, that would be fine. But you know eventually, they will require it of everyone. The federal bastards don't respect our rights!
- spyd3rweb, on 07/01/2008, -1/+11I am not a criminal and refuse to be treated like one.
- itchie, on 07/01/2008, -1/+10Hey the contract was awarded to Lockheed...what a surprise.
- unklesam666, on 07/01/2008, -0/+8the difference between a law-abiding citizen and a criminal is a sudden change of how the law is exercised - and over whom. so, FUFBI!
:) - mecharabbit, on 07/01/2008, -0/+8The pre-cogs are already visualizing your next online copyrighted media theft.
- bjornski, on 07/01/2008, -2/+9It won't happen.
American Idol is on. - PopcornDave, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6Rule #1. Never get involved.
Next time if you do want to be a good citizen, call anonymously from a pay phone - preferably without a security camera nearby. - NewGTGuy, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6"People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both."
- Benjamin Franklin - rootfiend, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6I hate when news stories drop this little gem: "privacy advocates say there's reason for law-abiding citizens to worry". It makes it sound like "privacy advocates" are some tiny group disjoint from the general population. The way I see it, anybody who has at least moderate intelligence should have cause for concern. Law enforcement can't even be trusted with the devices they have now.
- bjornski, on 07/01/2008, -0/+5@masterm1nd
Not everybody.
But most. - illustrick, on 07/01/2008, -1/+6you can also get that thing he injected into his face to ***** it up.
- krnldmp, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4I don't think it is safe to award government agencies too much greater power to monitor and control a populace.
- chumptronic, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4I completely agree. The potential problem isn't that the FBI will break its promises, but that someone else could pull another Patriot Act, and use this data for other purposes. I honestly don't that will happen, or that it would matter much, since biometrics are a long way away from being collected passively. But it could still turn a handful of lives into waking nightmares.
- bjornski, on 07/01/2008, -1/+5"We're taking more biometrics from the same people we were always authorized to take fingerprints from,”
I was fingerprinted at birth. - tkstock, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4I don't know how this is different than them collecting a DNA sample - that's just data too. But it convicts and frees people all the time.
- Elissar, on 07/01/2008, -0/+4They said "We're taking more biometrics from the same people we were always authorized to take fingerprints from,” so by that it's not that bad, as it's already people who are apprehended, however, if they do begin collecting data on just anyone, it is treating everyone like a criminal until they can prove otherwise, and that is the antithesis of our ideals and laws.
- PopcornDave, on 07/01/2008, -1/+5They're taking the fingerprints and DNA of anybody they arrest, but do they ever delete the information they've collected of the people that are not convicted? Or is that just stored because they have it? That's my biggest concern with this.
Next they're going to require it for your passport so they manage to get everybody's info. - masterm1nd, on 07/01/2008, -1/+4I agree with you elissar, but I'm not sure how collecting data is automatically treating you like a criminal. If there was a murder at your neighbors, the cops ARE going to ask you where you were last night. Are you going to say ***** you, I'm not a criminal? Do people bitch on the internet about that 24-7? I just don't think the paranoid NWO crowd has an argument that doesn't also argue against all of the things cops do already; which isn't to say those arguments are wrong, just makes it a non argument in the current state of things.
- masterm1nd, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3I'm sure theres something we're overlooking, but it could be argued that it would be easier for law abiding citizens to get out of false accusations and they would generally be safer since crime fighting would be more efficient.
- NewGTGuy, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3I once heard a statement saying something like--
"Can't tell where the Government ends and Lockheed begins" - Ob1masterjd26, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3Where's Solid Snake when you need him?
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -1/+4SEE!! I told you people!! Big Brother is REAL!! Orwell was right...
- DeusGear, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3*****. I refuse this.
- AlphaBronco, on 01/25/2009, -5/+8The government is the biggest, deadliest, and most successful criminal organization that we need this technology for. Let's get every single government employee, especially the military and police, and put thier details in a publicly accessible database, along with the rest of the common criminals.
- Wasyu, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3Umm the UK has already became Oceania from 1984.
- Elissar, on 07/01/2008, -1/+3All I have to say is: Papers please.
- inactive, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2Exactly... I would have thought that almost everyone would be a "privacy advocate".
- vaccumpony, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2 Several years ago in Portland, Oregon, I'd called the cops because the drunk lesbian couple next door were beating the ***** out of each other. When the cops showed up you'd think the first thing they would do would be to investigate the pounding and screaming coming from the apartment with the open windows and the stuff being flung out of said windows. Nope. The first thing the cops did was to come to my apartment and run a background check on me. I asked, over the screaming lesbians, why they were doing this and the cops said because they are allowed.
I can't imagine the Feds are going to behave too differently. - iancgi, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2Id trust it only if the people behind it had good intentions. We all know the current power structure in this world is massively corrupt, greedy, and down right evil.
So no thank you. - littlewing82, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2How is there even a doubt of where this could go? Our civil liberties are at risk here! The government is becoming more and more pervasive. All it takes a a false 'terror alarm' and the ***** could hit the fan.
- Biosfear01, on 08/05/2008, -1/+3wow it scans eyes and raises eyebrows!!! (well according to the posters description!)
- Skooma714, on 07/01/2008, -2/+4Oh you'll do it, along with everyone else.
- masterm1nd, on 07/01/2008, -2/+4I don't get your argument bjornski. It seems like you're saying this data is different. But how?
- ricker2005, on 07/01/2008, -1/+3Government employees DO have all of their information in databases that can be searched by law enforcement agencies, Mr. Cynical Digg User.
- PopcornDave, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2However given the success rate of gigantic government computer contracts, do we really have anything to worry about? Will this ever see the light of day after the FBI's last computer debacle?
Should they actually get their ***** together and make this functional, I think it's about time to get off the damn grid. At that point it's not worth living in this country, but anymore I don't know that there's anywhere left to go that actually believes that its citizens aren't criminals from birth. - BaseballGuyCAA, on 06/30/2008, -4/+6Goodbye, personal privacy.
- NewGTGuy, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2The problem is, our current society is an illusion. All of the evil around us is created by the power elite to instill fear. Fear being the best mechanism for manipulation.
- NewGTGuy, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2I'm with the government, you can trust me.
NOT! - Wasyu, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1We need to oppose crap like this the gov is just asking for too much and is invading our privacy all too often.
Plus you could just ware special contacts and the system is beaten it's a waste of money and nothing more.
Also face recognition is known to be fallible trash. - WilliamDavis, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1"adheres to very strict privacy guidelines"
Puhleese. Have you been asleep for the last 6 years?? - toker200, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Power corrupts even people going in with good intentions don't always stay that way, and with this ***** there are no good intentions its just another form of control the government wants over it's people
- NewGTGuy, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1OK, I should have been more specific. Yes, murderers and molesters should be punished.
I was referring to concepts like terrorism. Things created to scare society into submission. - PopcornDave, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1I'll submit mine, AFTER they submit theirs. Maybe...
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