Minority Report Style Iris Scanners In Mexico 187
TheRealPacmanJones writes "Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls 'the most secure city in the world.' In a partnership with Leon, one of the largest cities in Mexico with a population of more than a million, GRI will fill the city with eye-scanners. The scanners will help revolutionize law enforcement not to mention marketing."
Now you can identify me (Score:1, Interesting)
Next time I post from an Internet Cafe in Leon, someone will know who I really am.
-A. Coward
Secure? (Score:5, Interesting)
'the most secure city in the world.'
Not if you live, work or visit there. They need basic protections from drug gangs and their corrupt government, military and police. They don't need these scanners, they need millions of bullet proof vests.
Luckily.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Secure? (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:what a joke (Score:3, Interesting)
Much the same may be said of the United States. Out of seven major signs of being a third world country with a first world public image, it is exhibiting seven.
An obligatory link: 10 Signs The U.S. is Becoming a Third World Country [infowars.com]
Re:I think I can speak for all of us when I say (Score:3, Interesting)
But wait there's more, It will also be the lower 64 bits of your ipv6 address whenever you do anything online. You don't think we made 128 bits of Ip space and wasted all that bandwidth for nothing, do you?
ALL OF YOU, SHH! Use movie-script to sue gov. (Score:1, Interesting)
If you think about it, we actually need Software Patents and Pantent-laws, so that we we can invent all these New World Odor schemes by suing them for violating our patends disclosed in simulations presented in movie theatres.
And there you have it. Thanks Orson for the movie, now who'se going to buy that evidence inherint in the disclosure of that movie? Klingon is a language too, and the Klingons don't attack Planet Earth because they
know the RIAA and MPAA will sue them using Patent-law. It's like this with COPS, they are only arresting un-licensed drug dealers because they hold the Patents on drug-dealing: government hates competition.
Re:Secure? (Score:2, Interesting)
Not really. IN fact, most crime dropped, and domestic crime just about disappeared.
Criminal on criminal violence amongst rival importers was bad. However, even when it wasn't bad it would be put on headlines and twisted to seem worse.
My thought was that the papers didn't like the sever drop in revenue from the alcohol ad loss.
At least then the criminal had the decency to try and keep it among themselves.
Re:Phooey. (Score:3, Interesting)
More scanners will result in more sales, until the governments mandate you must not hide your eyes.
It wouldn't be too far removed from France's burqa ban.
Re:I think I can speak for all of us when I say (Score:3, Interesting)
So unabomber was right after all uh?
For the record, I don't approve his methods. But his manifesto is a good read.
Re:Well (Score:3, Interesting)
This article strikes me as a bit far-fetched. I'm curious to see if there's any news of this going anywhere in the future.
BTW, the GRI website is under the confusing name of hoyosgroup.com, and seems a bit fishy. No actual photos of staff (just generic clipart-ish silhouettes), and their claims of being able to capture a person's iris at over fifty feet moving at 1.5m/sec? Really? What kind of camera do they use for that? Just sayin'.
Re:Secure? (Score:2, Interesting)