You know what biometrics is? It's the concept of digitally identifying you through your biology. Most commonly, fingerprint scanners are now used in laptops, thumb drives and other security-oriented devices to confirm you are authorized to access said devices.
Retinal scans is another form of biometrics, along with sensors that can read the blood vessels in your hand, too.
The danger here is that these devices that ID you based on a body part need to keep copies of what your body part looks like in order to ID you. This data can be hacked and replaced or exploited in other ways. Also, it's a good insentive for a psycho to cut your finger off or pluck your eye out in order to get access to your private data. Of course, that's a bit extreme, but a government or a corporation having the data to ID you simply and easily is nothing short of an invasion of privacy.
And now, they're teaching kids to think it's cool and normal. According to [http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/01/walt-disney-world-to-start-fingerprinting-everyone/|a September 1, 2006 post] at Engadget.com, Disney theme parks will be using fingerprinting technology to help prevent ticket fraud.
Yeah, like Disney can't afford a little ticket fraud.
Four days later, Engadget.com posted [http://www.engadget.com/2006/09/05/biometrics-come-to-lunch-lady-land/|something else] about biometrics, this time it's about kids using their fingerprints to pay/get their lunch every day.
Lovely.
Is there anything wrong with just letting them use cash? Or some sort of credit card?
Don't use kids getting beaten up for their lunch money as an excuse--instead of invading kids' privacy how about policing the violent offenders... sheesh!
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