technology tyrants playing God

Technologies travel. Especially if they are technologies of control and are  in the hands of what are, basically ,Technology Tyrants. Tyrants playing God. Gods who have access to the most incredible  and constantly evolving, surveillance  and control technologies. Technolgies that will soon drown out  the very Democracy they pretend to protect.

  Fingerprinting, we have to remember, was 'invented' in India and 19th century colonials carried it back to their own lands. Technology that was designed and meant to control the colonised was soon controlling the colonisers and helping subdue their own societies.

The pattern is repeating itself.  Surveillance  systems perfected in Afghanistan  and Iraq are filtering back to control the citizens of of the "Free" World.

General Wants to Scan More U.S. Irises, Fingerprints

• BY NATHAN HODGE
• 01.29.09
• 2:00 PM

Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart, the Pentagon’s homeland security commander, thinks one of the tools the military uses to combat insurgents in Iraq — the collection of biometric data — is needed here at home.

The Associated Press has this alarming intriguing quote from Renuart, who spoke Tuesday at a defense industry conference in northern Virginia:   

"Interestingly, we are probably further forward in using biometrics outside our country in some of the combat environments than we are inside our country," said the general. "We’ve got to find a way to fix that."

 Noah reported extensively on the use of biometrics to deny freedom of movement to insurgents in Anbar province; 



http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/01/biometrics-need/?utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaign=Previous

The troops have come home, the flag has been been lowered, and the Iraq War is officially in the past for the U.S. military. But the military is holding on to a major souvenir of the war: a massive database packed with retinal scans, thumb prints and other biometric data identifying millions of Iraqis. It will be a tool for counterterrorism long after the Iraq War becomes a fading memory.

U.S. Central Command, the military command responsible for troops in the Mideast and South Asia, confirms to Danger Room that the biometrics database, compiled by U.S. troops over the course of years, will remain U.S. property. “Centcom has the database,” says the command’s chief spokesman, Army Maj. T.G. Taylor, who says it contains files on three million Iraqis. The U.S.-sponsored Iraqi government, in other words, doesn’t control a host of incredibly specific information on its citizens.

Iraqis aren’t the only ones to wind up in huge U.S. biometrics databases. Afghans, too, have been scanned by the millions. As far back as 2005, detainee biometric data from both Iraqis and Afghans turned up in anobscure Pentagon anti-terrorism database called the Department of Defense DNA Registry. Documents released by WikiLeaks suggest that the U.S. even seeks to collect bio-data on foreign leaders.

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/iraq-biometrics-database/?utm_source=Contextly&utm_medium=RelatedLinks&utm_campaign=Previous