Big Brother loves your eyes!

[tryfuhl]

For those that need to be behind bars it seems like a good idea.. making the slope a bit more slippery for much lesser offenses is a whole different story. The beginnings to a police state.. and a lazy one at that.

This is where a lot of other companies have gotten it wrong

"When these residents catch a train or bus, or take out money from an ATM, they will scan their irises, rather than swiping a metro or bank card. "

This is just wrong, it's not going to happen any time soon, and certainly not within 10 years. Cash is still king and people will not be paying metro fares off of some eye-scanning device linked to their bank account, assuming that they have one. This would also likely mean the need for millions of mobile wireless scanners as well. Imagine the data mining that would be available to those collecting the scans as well as vulnerability of those being tracked if the system was compromised.

His intimidating tactics also tell me to proceed with caution:

"And he has a warning for those thinking of opting out: "When you get masses of people opting-in, opting out does not help. Opting out actually puts more of a flag on you than just being part of the system. We believe everyone will opt-in.""

Sounds like a movie where all humans are subjects, part of a robot army.

The more I read about it the less I like it.

Sidenote: I love Fast Company