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Biometrics and Masking UP
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Thursday June 17, 2004 17:52 by biomatrix
EU summit on Biometrics June 14-15 2004 A question often debated by activists is whether or not to ‘mask up’. It seems the main argument against ‘masking up’ is accountability. People feel that they have a right to protest and thus have nothing to hide. Which is fair enough, but people who have been on protests on this island recently will be only too familiar with the sight of a uniformed garda filming from the side-lines. This increase in garda surveillance makes one feel uneasy, but even more so in light of the recent EU summit on Biometrics. It was held in Dublin on Monday and Tuesday (June 14 and 15). Biometrics the statistical study of biological phenomena, but lately it is more associated with the science of identity. And the technology that accompanies it is state of the art. No longer smudgy black ink fingerprints taken in an overcrowded stuffy room in the passport office. This is now simply pressing an index finger ever-so-lightly on a scanner smaller than a computer mouse – or it is being photographed by a camera (with facial mapping capabilities) that is much smaller than a mobile phone. |
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because in one of our recent European Resistance Peaks this year, the US state dept cancelled the requirement for biometric id on EU citizens visiting the states, and I sort of thought that had put the whole sinister biometric agenda back a bit. I haven't looked for the reference, but off the top of my head, it was the week we went hell for leather on Rumsfeld over the first torture accusations and suggested the White House wheel out an apologetic Condoleenza Rice (which they did). It was a brief time of lots of "VIP" types getting well pissed off at US customs, the heir to Spain's throne and his now wife, you know "the 2004 royal wedding cake for everyone crew", got well hassled on their way in, and in the VIP fallout, I do seem to remember at least the DNA bit of biometrics got hit on the head.
links would be really appreciated to the corps promoting this stuff, and to the current news.
I rather like the idea . Those with less desirable genetic fingerprints could be kept under control more easily.
Have a read up on the American ACLU website on the biometric and face recognition fiasco at the US airports.
It basically boils down to the fact that the only people who are pushing this junk is the companies that make it.it consistently fails to recognise disguised people or similiar looking people.
Anyway,how long would it be before this "foolproof"technology is defeated?like the unforgeable EU currency?
Keep an eye on it but dont be too worried about it...yet.
haven't checked them meself but there may be some more info for anyone wanting to read on.
www.sagem.com
www.unisys.com/public_sector
www.nowcommunications.co.uk
wwww.daon.com
and ibm and motorola also produce biometric equipment.
"The EBF biometrics technology showcase has been set up to coincide with the European Police Force Conference held in Dublin from the 18 to 20 June 2004. The 3 day meeting, hosted by the Irish Police (An Garda Síochána), has been organised for the Heads of IT for the Police Forces of the EU member States. The Seminar will include presentations by IT experts from Ireland and abroad and workshop sessions aimed at identifying areas for potential technical co-operation in the future. "
http://www.euireland.ie/news/infosoc/0504/biometricstechshowcase.htm
3,000 people on Mayday felt no need to wear a mask. About 60 elitist people chose to wear a mask. 3,000 people had no problems with having their photo taken. The tiny masked mob did and felt it was their right to attack photographers.
Where do the Black Bloc get their mandate from? Its certainly no democratic mandate. They are just a bunch of elitist adventurists who substitute themselves for mass action. Their provocations make Non Violent Direct Action all the more difficult to carry out.
http://defy-id.org.uk have info on the companies involved in the British scheme.
Only the small oppportunists are on board right now. The likes of EDS & Siemens will join in once they feel safe enough.
As for disguising your identity, computer journal The Register has some rather nifty technical info in its "Everything you never wanted to know about the UK ID card" article @
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/05/complete_idcard_guide/
Don't worry about it being UK oriented. ID cards are NOT a national issue.
They were discussed at the 2003 G8, almost certainly at the Bilderberger bash, and are 'conicidentally' being introduced at the same time in all EU countries where carrying ID is not yet mandatory. (The other countries are looking at centralising and including biometric data on their systems as well).
And the US shows it's not an EU issue,
Make no mistake. There is SERIOUS political will behind this one. The population of the world will be catalogued, if politicians; goverments have to fall to do it. It's just a question of whether we can fuck the system up before it fucks us up.
of a very large room filled from floor to ceiling with file boxes. None of the files within were ever organised, or catalogued, which might be good, for they were interior ministry colations gathered on the citizens of the country during it's period of non-democratic rule by dictatorship. It's a scene repeated throughout Europe which sadly in the very clear majority lost the necessary political and cultural will and direction to preserve democratic institutions, beliefs, liberty, fraternity and the "not going simian".
thankfully the simians of those times,
the men and women who "just did their job" had not the efficiency of our a global computerised machine at their disposal.
Some of us do not forget that, it was very recent, some of us don't forget anything.