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Science, nominally the most prestigious scientific journal in the world, is at it again. In November, they published an editorial saying that scientists need to be even more political than they already are.
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Dr. Daniel Armstrong has had his name erased from the U.K. Medical Register and been barred from practice for making a video in which he argued that the Covid vaccines are unsafe, untested and cause harm.
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Big Brother is a metaphor

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Wednesday February 23, 2005 01:32author by Rasta4i's Report this post to the editors

New Technologies - Biometrics

The terms "Biometrics" and "Biometry" have been used since early in the 20th century to refer to the field of development of statistical and mathematical methods connected to data analysis problems in the biological sciences.
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Nowadays, biometrics is the measurement of an individual's unique physical characteristics, such as face and voice patterns, signature analysis, iris scans, hand geometry and the most common, fingerprints.

There are a lot of potential uses for such technology. It helps law enforcement officials identify and discourage terrorists and criminals and someday you may be able to use a simple fingerprint to pay for your Big Mac at McDonald’s or to make a bank transaction at an ATM equipped with a signature-verification pad.

Using biometrics with information stored in databases that can be accessed anywhere in the country may lead to abuses in personal freedoms and privacy. Governments claim that they are under an international obligation to create national databases of fingerprints and face scans but we will soon see nations with appalling human rights records generating massive databases and then requiring our own fingerprints and face-scans as we travel. Legislation passed after the September 2001 attacks required foreign countries to create biometric-enabled passports. The US required that all passports issued after 26 October 2004 were to have a biometric identifier i.e. facial characteristic.

Big Brother is a metaphor that covers the regions of governmental science, technology, the global monitoring intelligence community such as the GPS (Global Positioning Satellites) and many other similar entities that will lead humanity into a One World Government where every human being will be marked, tracked and monitored. ()








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The Embedded Security System replaces the standard Microsoft Windows password entry screen with the biometric fingerprint scan. Therefore, ones unique biometric code identity is stored on the hard drive. Hack the computer and personal identity theft/intelligence gathering is easy.

It is probable that this will become standard on all computers in the very near future. Also in the pipeline is voice recognition and eye scan log in.

Biometric Laptop now becoming the norm
Biometric Laptop now becoming the norm

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For the return of my index finger.

 
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