Eye Flight: Iris Scan For JFK Passengers

[theearthisround]

http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/38159.htm

International travelers will soon be able to zip through JFK Airport with the blink of an eye.

The airport will be home to a new pilot program that uses high-tech eye scans to speed pre-registered passengers through security and customs checkpoints.

"Our vision is to enhance our security and facilitate the legitimate flow of trade and travel to and from the U.S.," Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced yesterday in the Netherlands — a country that has used a similar eye-scan program since 2001.

[DELUSIONAL]

1. "Minority Report" became the future

In that movie Id was via eye-scans -- people entered stores and were welcomed by name after their eyes were scanned.

Soon everyone will have a huge data-bank -- DNA, eye scans, finger prints, all medical records. Anyone without the above info will be considered a potential terrorist and be treated as such.

[DulceDecorum]

2. This is all so BOGUS

They could use fingerprints
but the trouble with those is that they are too difficult to fake.

In the 1983 James Bond movie Never Say Never Again, a villain gains access to the United States' nuclear arsenal by foiling a presumably fail-safe passkey system -- a scan of the president's right eye. This, of course, left the dapper British secret agent to set things right and save the world.
http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/4_4_98/bob1.htm

This whole thing is being set up by a bunch of Diebold-type crooks
who want to leave a loophole to commit their nefarious misdeeds.

[MisterP]

4. one could use those tremendous blown-up photos of the Chimp

they regularly have in newsmagazines, with all the pores and evil staring out at you

[amazona]

3. is this safe?

What are the risks to vision? If you get scanned a lot, might you have increased risk of cataract?

Any safety testing of this product whatsoever?

Some of us fly monthly, others weekly. Some airline workers are obviously flying every working day.

We should be informed of the health risks of these procedures.

I take it the fingerprints they were collecting didn't work so well for catching the bad guys?

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