The End of Privacy: Entire City to Track People With Public Eye Scanners

Imagine a public eye scanner that can identify 50 people per minute, in motion. Now imagine that the government install these scanner systems all across an entire city. Or don't imagine it, because it's already happening, right now.

The City of Leon, Mexico, is doing exactly that, installing real time iris scanners from biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. These scanners don't require people to stop and put their eyes in front of a camera. They work in real time, as people walk, like this:



There are different kinds of machines being installed across Leon, from large scanners—capable of identifying 50 people per minute in motion— to smaller ones—like the EyeSwipe in the video above—that range from 15 to 30 people per minute. These devices are being installed in public places, like train and bus stations, and connected to a database that will track people across the city.

City officials and proponents of the system are hoping that public retinal scans will stop crime and fraud. According to Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers:

If you've been convicted of a crime, in essence, this will act as a digital scarlet letter. If you're a known shoplifter, for example, you won't be able to go into a store without being flagged. Certainly for others, boarding a plane will be impossible.

The retinal scanning of Leon's one million population has started already with its convicted criminals. Citizens with no criminal records have been offered the opportunity to "voluntarily" scan their eyes. This, however, is just the beginning. According to Carter, everyone in the planet should be connected to the iris tracking system in 10 years:

In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris. Every person, place, and thing on this planet will be connected within the next 10 years.

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you know i agree to an extent but the way i look at this situation is in a bigger means of extreme. if these things know all about us we have no privacy. I mean will get so much spam on what we need in our life and everything will be ran by a corporation that will be bought out by gov official that institute our life to a machine and if they feel we step out of line they can shut off our identity or alter it to their liking making it easier to enslave us.

obama care was the first step and we all see what that did

whats next ?

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I agree it would help in some aspects but in others not so much. We are manipulated enough to believe 9/11 was caused by muslims and not by our own gov, apparently we were tricked into believing obamas way of health care was good and excepted it. I am not saying that its a bad idea but we can't let them take things to the next level, theit is a reason for what theit doing and its to benefit them as always.

Look up in the air when your at a red light or at a store outside in a parking lot (big brother) is all over already.

I voted yes, just because I want to hear my name being said by that robot, LOL I don't really care. We're gonna die someday.

I wanna die in peace instead of being a slave to a world that should be free.

to each there own, there are good reasons and bad but ultimately no good comes from letting the gov instill what they want, because there always is gonna be a hidden agenda against the american people.