Re: A question for all my fellow (and fellowess) El-Reg readers.
And in that time the general conscientious has been that most people on here are opposed to something like a central bio-metric database.
Can I ask why you feel that way?
Principle. Recognising another individual by sight, smell or sound is baked into the human (possibly tetrapod) condition, but if I choose to conceal those cues you have no business knowing who I am unless I choose to tell you. That's why I won't go to the wrong side of the pond anymore. My own government don't have my fingerprints so there is no way in hell I'm handing that data to a foreign government.
DNA is even worse. At the risk of Godwinning myself, imagine what certain near historical political regimes would have been able to do with a comprehensive database of this nature. Scan the entire population for genetic susceptibility to Tay-Sachs disease perhaps? Purely for altruistic reasons of pre-emptive health care of course.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
