Japan: Fingerprints To Be Tested As ‘Currency’
April 8th, 2016Via: The Yomiuri Shimbun:
Starting this summer, the government will test a system in which foreign tourists will be able to verify their identities and buy things at stores using only their fingerprints.
The government hopes to increase the number of foreign tourists by using the system to prevent crime and relieve users from the necessity of carrying cash or credit cards. It aims to realize the system by the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The experiment will have inbound tourists register their fingerprints and other data, such as credit card information, at airports and elsewhere.
Tourists would then be able to conduct tax exemption procedures and make purchases after verifying their identities by placing two fingers on special devices installed at stores.
The Inns and Hotels Law requires foreign tourists to show their passports when they check into ryokan inns or hotels.
The government plans to substitute fingerprint authentication for that requirement.
Will be able to? Relieve users of having to?
Sounds like the Japanese have their own Karl Roves to pervert their language into Newspeak so what’s bad sounds good and even the worst can be magically transformed into a benefit. There are no limits to the application of Newspeak other than public resistance and ridicule.
Unless we refuse to use their twisted language ourselves and laugh them to scorn, as the phrase has it, how far will they go? “With the new transformational injection system, our clients can now enjoy the comfort of resting in a cozy bed while the procedure is taking place, instead of being confined in a hard, cold [electric] chair?”
https://youtu.be/5eAdY5I8CTU?t=1m15s
“actual bloodflow dynamics in the finger”
“2000 PPI”