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Story: Becta gives guidance to schools on biometrics
No More Privacy?
Smart cards, personal IDs, RFIDs violate civil rights. No more privacy. It looks very wonderful to eliminate lunch queues, to prevent unauthorised access to schools, etc. But there are controlling structures behind the scene. Have you been in library? Someone knows it - you've used your access card - and this one knows exact time you entered it and exited it. May be even what you've read? What you've copied? May be it was some "forbidden" book? "Archipelag Gulag" by Solgenitsin? And now you're suspected person? Welcome to the Orwell's "1984". Because of one of the most valuable freedoms of the human is freedom to self protect against government. No one have to disclose his personality to governmental agency unless this agency have good reason to ask. In the case of RFID's they even don't have to ask - they will scan. Scan when you get the job. When you have a lunch, what you see, to whom talk to and what you've done. No more choice. Just barcode on every human being http://www.barcodeart.com/ART/tattoo/slave_hand_sm.jpg
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