Biometrics is an interesting topic. It's basically a record of anything from your fingerprints, to DNA, to your iris and even the shape of your face or the way you walk.
http://www.biometricsinstitute.org/pages/types-of-biometrics.html
Yes, the way you walk. We all have our own peculiar gait. It's interesting that you can probably be tracked simply by the way you lumber down the street on your way to stuff your face with an oversized burrito at Chipotle or take long walks on the beach with that guy you met on Match.com
The commercial implications of this are limitless. Indeed, they already are:
http://www.biometricupdate.com/biometric-news/commercial-applications
If you've seen Minority Report, you've witnessed what may very well be a trend in future advertising. As if it wasn't disconcerting enough for Gmail and FB to tailor ads by using the information you post or email about.
What's more, if private industry has it, guess who else might? That's right, Big Brother.
What are your concerns regarding this budding technology that harbors massive anti-privacy applications?
Much like anyone who sees me lumbering down the street stuffing my face with a burito, my problem with biometrics is that they can't easily be 'forgotten'.
What happens when someone steals yours password?
You have to change it...
What happens when someone steals your retinal scan, your fingerprints? Not just this but if it becomes ubiquitous it's useless in regard to security as it only takes one company to be breached.
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Or one company to give away your information. I can't help but think of the movie Middle Men where the government goes to internet porn pros for information to target other human beings. One can't help but liken that to the stink that was raised by iPhone fingerprint scans. Once more, having actually targeted American citizens with drones without due process. Orwell's technological imaginings come closer to reality...
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