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The other benefit is that it can be done many meters away and while you are moving (such as through an airport metal detector). The planned deployment of this, from Sarnoff's perspective, was that it would be trying to match iris information it had databased on known bad guys. There's no plan to store the images it takes, and only to use them for comparison against known persons.

Of course, I understand this means nothing to those of you who will absolutely insist on being conspiracy fruitcakes (and you know who you are).]]>Mar 15th 2007 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/Feb 8th 2007 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/Feb 8th 2007 2:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/
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*whack*
You're in the wrong line.

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I love that movie]]>Feb 8th 2007 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/
If you don't have anything to hid, you don't have anything to worry about.
]]>Feb 8th 2007 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/
where do you think this stops? invasion of privacy doesn't just apply to the guilty. A cop can't pull you over and run your drivers license number just because he feels like it, you need to do something suspicious first.

I'm sure a device like this has its place in very high security areas, but this will never be loosed on the public. ]]>Feb 8th 2007 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/Feb 8th 2007 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/
If you don't have anything to hide, you don't have anything to worry about."

Okay, fine. Let me see how pink your anus is every Tuesday, and let me install cameras to view all of your loved one's nipples.

Thanks,
U.S.A.]]>Feb 8th 2007 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/Feb 8th 2007 6:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/Feb 8th 2007 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/
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"I'm sure a device like this has its place in very high security areas, but this will never be loosed on the public."

You are forgetting that the same was said about surveillance cameras (now ubiquitous in some cities). As soon as it becomes economical enough, our masters will steal enough funds from us to implement it. Say bye-bye to public anonymity.]]>Feb 9th 2007 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/Feb 9th 2007 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/Aug 14th 2007 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/08/sarnoff-wants-to-scan-your-iris-without-your-knowledge/The reading of irises only reflect the person at the time of the scan. It is ridiculous to think there is any security validity by use of this method. The truth is finding a way to reduce people to numbers is only designed to continue the enslavement of societies were people are marginalizing into uniformity without concern to the environment created by there zoo keepers, who are the ones that are the creators of the ills these societies suffer. How difficult is it to see we are being tagged for bagging by people who know they are not a part of the solution but are the problem. ]]>Nov 11th 2007 2:37PM