Florida Schools Conduct Iris Scans On Children As Young As Six
the databases are beginning. It is heartening that it took only one parent to draw attention to the practice and have it shut down. Check out your local school districts and make sure they are not implementing the same
It takes a lot more than refusing an eye scan to fall off the 'grid'....
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....
sadly, we are not a nation of laws. <(
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."