Distinguishing friend from foe has been one of the keen challenge through geezerhood of American military front in Iraq and Afghanistan . But science fiction - worthy biometric scanning , the NYT reports , is changing the face of warfare , two iris diaphragm at at ime .
The crying , advanced imaging techhas scanned the faces of one in six fighting - eld men in Afghanistan , and a staggering one in four in Iraq . That ’s millions and millions of eye and faces , along with matching fingerprints . The war machine ’s database means insurgent , prisoners , and other figures of note can be identified with near rank certainty — make forged papers and trickery futile .
https://gizmodo.com/csi-bin-laden-commandos-use-thumb-eye-scans-to-track-5798039
But not everyone ’s happy about the tracking . Local governmental authorities are n’t entirely comfortable with the US holding onto an tremendous treasure trove of immaculate biometric data pin to their citizens .
Would we be ? Our total whim of commonwealth building has been guided by a template of American liberty — but it ’s hard to imagine any American put up biometric tagging en masse shot . [ NYT ]
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