Galt's Gulch

For your Childrens good.

Posted by Ibecame 8 years, 8 months ago to Government
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First they wanted to "chip" all of your children, now they want to make eye scans of them because it is better technology.
Every where we go every time we pass a camera.....
SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/04/terrorist-tracking-tech-adapted-to-help-find-missing-children/?intcmp=hplnws

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  • Posted by khalling 8 years, 8 months ago
    what happens when you are charged with a crime, based on your "unique" retinal print? what happens if this unique "signature" is "stolen" from you? it's always a plea for the children
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    • Posted by Ibecame 8 years, 8 months ago
      I hear what you are saying 100%. Anyone with a high resolution camera (of course that would be tough; can we say iPhone), can steal this so called "unique retinal print". This is of course "for the Children", but the drivers license cameras in may states have already been upgraded to this level. Hollywood has been using photo imaged full eye contacts and colored contacts for at least 25 years now, maybe longer. I bet they could even be made on a 3D printer. We all don't have to be "Perry Mason" to see this slippery slope. Of course the final extension of this is that it will rapidly move into marketing to track ones every move. I never was the paranoid type, but this one crawls under my skin like something out of a Horror movie.
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      • Posted by khalling 8 years, 8 months ago
        yes, in our state-PLUS (added bonus) we had to get the special gold star in the corner of our license showing we had a valid passport in order to go across state lines by plane
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  • Posted by $ Stormi 8 years, 8 months ago
    If thee child's scan and info go into a data base, what if it is hacked by white slave trade. They would know jut where to look and for whom.
    My mail carrier was horrified to learn that even things never on her notebook, conversations about items in their living room - suddenly resulted in ads for tha very item on her computer the net day or two! She now suspects her phone, which was not in use but on during during the conversation. It is now banned and put in a metal drawer when they talk about things.
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    • Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 8 months ago
      It's why I don't use Siri.
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      • Posted by $ Stormi 8 years, 8 months ago
        Wow, thanks. I will tell the mail carrier, as several of them are huge Siri users. I don't think she considered that.
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        • Posted by Ibecame 8 years, 8 months ago
          Something I forgot about until now was the snooping from your satellite and cable box. We got rid of those a long time ago, so I forgot. Many years ago I pulled the cover off of the cable box, and again later the satellite box. What I found inside both of these was a microphone. Both of them were also equipped with a in infrared sensor to detect someone being in front of the box. Both boxes had chips for two way communication, not just reception and the satellite box had to hook up to the phone line.
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        • Posted by Ibecame 8 years, 8 months ago
          To ask the common sense question; What does Siri have to do with anything? Cell phones already have a microphone and cameras onboard. At least at the moment there is no outward sign that Apple collects anything other than technical error data that relates to improving their software. At the moment they are at least professing to be a advocate of consumer privacy and all of their actions demonstrate this.

          iPhones are not perfect, but Apple has been consistently improving privacy. One of the easiest things to watch out for on any phone is battery usage. If you have downloaded a app and battery usage seems to be going up, delete the app (which is sometimes difficult with "trolling" apps. Better yet, do some online research on apps before you install them. Items on the Apple app store are checked by apple, and screened by zealous Apple users, making that a good source. I wouldn't even call that a guarantee since "trolls" are coming up with ways around almost every privacy measure out there.
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          • Posted by $ Stormi 8 years, 8 months ago
            Tech Times article reports the flashlight apps loaded on Androids and Microsoft machines are collecting and sharing personal information, which have nothing to do with providing simple light. The article states that the IPhone flashlight app "seems safe". They also urge caution in choosing and allowing apps to roam your phone.
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    • Posted by Ibecame 8 years, 8 months ago
      Cell phone companies have been "trolling" cell phones for years. Most of the carriers take pictures every few seconds, (the largest bank robbery in history was solved from these pictures) so it wouldn't be surprising that the phones would "listen" by being connected to a computer to "provide a more enjoyable customer experience". There are quite a number of "apps" out there that are known for "trolling" also. Have you ever noticed how often they beat Apple up for not having their phones unlocked and not having the ability to do two things at once. This is to provide security and privacy by preventing two methods of communication at once. I hate to say it but having privacy has become a war. To quote "if you have nothing to hide, the privacy should not bother you".
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      • Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 8 months ago
        And that in and of itself is a false argument which violates the Fourth Amendment's presumption of innocence until proven guilty.

        It goes back to the quote from Atlas Shrugged that jbreener is wont to quote - that the purpose of the looters is to create ways to get others into trouble so that they may rule them.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 8 months ago
    This was a key element of the plot of the 2002 film Minority Report.

    Many people imagine there's a rash of strangers snatching normal middle-class children. That's probably what made the researchers think of an application in missing children. Contrary to the perception, stranger abduction almost never happens. This is a cool solution looking for a problem.
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    • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 8 years, 8 months ago
      As they say in the beginning of the TV show "Person of Interest":

      "You are being watched. The government has a secret system: a machine that spies on you every hour of every day."

      In an interview the creators of the show said they thought that they were writing fiction but if the show went on long enough it would become current events. After Snowden, then realized their time frame was off.
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  • Posted by walkabout 8 years, 8 months ago
    Wouldn't it be better if we all took a lesson from the airlines and noted "you should take care of yourself first, then help others." Wow, does that sound like AR!?
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 8 months ago
    tax dollars initiated this machine and tax dollars will buy these machines and the end result will be tax dollars wasted on a machine that will benefit nobody but the sellers of the machine.
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    • Posted by Ibecame 8 years, 8 months ago
      I predict it will benefit the watchers, and the marketers. You will pause to look at a gadget in a store and moments later there will be ads for similar items popping up in all of your electronic devices. At the moment I am throughly amazed that the ads you get on cable are not targeted. The only thing stopping this from happening is a entrenched system.
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