Well it seems that Mexico is now turning into more of a surveillance state than the US. At least now I understand why so many of them are risking death to escape to the US. I used to believe it was because there was a better standard of living in the US. Now it looks like they are running to escape Big Amigo.
Leon — one of the largest cities in Mexico, is being fitted with Iris scanners with a laughable aim of making it the most secure city in the World with Fraud completely eradicated. Criminals Iris scans will be loaded into the system and they can be tracked wherever they go. Limiting their access to certain areas and alerting Plod to their whereabouts. Of course, ordinary people will also be picked up and the hope is that they will sign up voluntarily to be tagged like animals scanned where they can be validated and have the ‘benefit’ of not needing to carry a bank card or ID. The implied threat for those that don’t sign up is ‘Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system’ Read that as you will be stopped at every door and checkout until we validate your ID and Plod will pull you over every ten minutes until you give in. Make like you are resisting and suddenly you will find you do have a criminal record, if you live.
There are so many things wrong here that it will be interesting to watch. People being scanned to pay for others drinks, people being denied access to services because they have a criminal record and people breaking in your home when the system detects you are just entering your local restaurant for a meal and someone informs the local crooks. However, regardless of the outcome you can be sure that controlling eyes in other countries will be watching this social experiment. If it succeeds then it will be rolled out here soon enough. If it fails then it will be rolled out here with a few minor mods that the Mexicans got wrong. It will make the the old USSR, China, North Korea and New Labour look like amateurs and you can be sure they will be quick to pick up this technology, for security purposes of course.
The manufacturers claim that with the advance in technology no one can fool the system with dead eyes which is fair enough. Interestingly enough though by hiding your eyes you can avoid the system completely. How useful is ‘I was mugged and the scanners couldn’t identify the assailant’. Plus I keep hearing how there are frauds over the internet worth billions and they are increasing with real life fraudulent transactions reducing. How does it stop that?
In addition once the Iris scanning is the subjugation tool of choice then there will be many bright young minds turned into cracking the system. False eyes will be created and contact lenses, glasses etc. will be produced to counteract them. Everyone knows that once cracked, and it doesn’t take long, it takes a lot longer to find a fix and then apply that fix to every scanner out there. I claim Blair’s Iris scans. Let us see what trouble I can get him into. In the meantime a can of spraypaint should be fine.
Personally, if I lived in Leon I would be making my move now. Leon is turning into the biggest open prison on the planet. As well as this the US border looks like it will be tightening up and you may leave it too late.
Target identified. Send out Plod to <strike>terminate</strike> investigate
Well it seems that Mexico is now turning into more of a surveillance state than the US. At least now I understand why so many of them are risking death to escape to the US. I used to believe it was because there was a better standard of living in the US. Now it looks like they are running to escape Big Amigo.
Leon — one of the largest cities in Mexico, is being fitted with Iris scanners with a laughable aim of making it the most secure city in the World with Fraud completely eradicated. Criminals Iris scans will be loaded into the system and they can be tracked wherever they go. Limiting their access to certain areas and alerting Plod to their whereabouts. Of course, ordinary people will also be picked up and the hope is that they will sign up voluntarily to be
tagged like animalsscanned where they can be validated and have the ‘benefit’ of not needing to carry a bank card or ID. The implied threat for those that don’t sign up is ‘Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system’ Read that as you will be stopped at every door and checkout until we validate your ID and Plod will pull you over every ten minutes until you give in. Make like you are resisting and suddenly you will find you do have a criminal record, if you live.There are so many things wrong here that it will be interesting to watch. People being scanned to pay for others drinks, people being denied access to services because they have a criminal record and people breaking in your home when the system detects you are just entering your local restaurant for a meal and someone informs the local crooks. However, regardless of the outcome you can be sure that controlling eyes in other countries will be watching this social experiment. If it succeeds then it will be rolled out here soon enough. If it fails then it will be rolled out here with a few minor mods that the Mexicans got wrong. It will make the the old USSR, China, North Korea and New Labour look like amateurs and you can be sure they will be quick to pick up this technology, for security purposes of course.
The manufacturers claim that with the advance in technology no one can fool the system with dead eyes which is fair enough. Interestingly enough though by hiding your eyes you can avoid the system completely. How useful is ‘I was mugged and the scanners couldn’t identify the assailant’. Plus I keep hearing how there are frauds over the internet worth billions and they are increasing with real life fraudulent transactions reducing. How does it stop that?
In addition once the Iris scanning is the subjugation tool of choice then there will be many bright young minds turned into cracking the system. False eyes will be created and contact lenses, glasses etc. will be produced to counteract them. Everyone knows that once cracked, and it doesn’t take long, it takes a lot longer to find a fix and then apply that fix to every scanner out there. I claim Blair’s Iris scans. Let us see what trouble I can get him into. In the meantime a can of spraypaint should be fine.
Personally, if I lived in Leon I would be making my move now. Leon is turning into the biggest open prison on the planet. As well as this the US border looks like it will be tightening up and you may leave it too late.