Life on the Plantation: Biometric Scanners Going Mainstream

January 26th, 2007

Via: Reuters:

Every morning Dennis Colson, a surveyor at New York City’s Department of Design and Construction, begins his work day by placing his hand on a scanner to log his time and attendance at the office.

The use of hand geometry and other biometric data, like facial and iris recognition, is not new — the University of Georgia pioneered the use of hand geometry when it installed scanners in its student dining hall in 1974.

But the planned roll-out of hand geometry scanners in all New York City government agencies has sparked union cries of “geoslavery” and assertions that technology developed for security will be used to track, label and control workforces.

Jon Forster, of the Civil Service Technical Guild, which represents Department of Design and Construction workers, said the biometric systems gave the city a license to obtain personal, uniquely identifiable data to track workers.

“It’s really a matter of this kind of technology having far outstripped any legislation or even case law in the United States in terms of what are the restrictions,” Forster told Reuters.

“On the one hand I think people might all agree that if you put a GPS system in ambulances then that’s a good thing. On the other hand you have an employer in Ohio who has demanded that two of his employees have chips implanted in their bodies.”

3 Responses to “Life on the Plantation: Biometric Scanners Going Mainstream”

  1. Michelle in Ga says:

    Biometric scanners are crap. We use them at our
    work. They don’t function well if your hands
    are cold,dry or have a rash etc.

  2. Mark says:

    Bow down to the Big Brother folks.. he’s coming to get ya, and there’s no lube either!!!

  3. George Kenney says:

    The truth is stranger than fiction!!

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1263677258215075609&q=aaron+russo+rockefeller

    Hollywood director and documentary film maker Aaron Russo has gone in-depth on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, who … all » personally told him that the elite’s ultimate goal was to create a microchipped population and that the war on terror was a hoax, Rockefeller having predicted an “event” that would trigger the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan eleven months before 9/11.

    Rockefeller also told Russo that his family’s foundation had created and bankrolled the women’s liberation movement in order to destroy the family and that population reduction was a fundamental aim of the global elite.

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