all good points.

I am against the eye scans in the article...let's make that clear.

But the article got me thinking about just how many databases I am probably already in! The list would probably make a novella....

As soon as we type on our computer, we are 'noted' somewhere. I had a visit from a FBI field agent many years ago, the morning after I debated Monica Gate on a internet forum. That knock on my door opened my eyes as to just how little privacy I really enjoyed. Nothing has reversed, and after 9/11 the dogs were set loose....

These kids would have had to be born, and raised, in a vacuum to miss out on all of this.

There are probably some individuals living in the hills of Kentucky that are unknown to the government....

There is a whole difference from being able to and the govt purposefully creating a database.

Given the fact that anyone that carries a cell phone can be located within a few yards, 24/7, any thoughts of privacy have long been quashed.

It takes a lot more than refusing an eye scan to fall off the 'grid'....

but we a nation of men. the Supremes are like Oracles. They speak, and it is truth.
sadly, we are not a nation of laws. <(

It's sick and wrong. Of course, one must distinguish between right and wrong, something Florida school administrators clearly lack.

Just after 9/11 here is a discussion between Objectivists on point:
http://seclists.org/politech/2001/Oct/12...
I like Justice William O Douglas's quote the best:
"To be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom."