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January 25, 2006
Iris Scanners Installed At New Jersey Grade Schools
According to the Philoneist:
A biometric iris identification pilot program is currently being tested in three New Jersey elementary grade schools. The scanners and software application, designed by Eyemetric Identity Systems, are being used to compare and positively match teachers, staff employees, and upto four parent/guardians per children for building access rights.
Yikes. Somehow, I managed to make it through 12 years of public school without iris scanners. At my school, students used to drive to school with rifles and shotguns in the back windows of their trucks. My neighbor used to keep his rifle in his locker at school. Now, however, the Department of Justice is funding a study to identify disarmed students with iris scanners. Somebody wake me when it's over.
For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position. Instead of being placed, as was normal, in the end wall, where it could command the whole room, it was in the longer wall, opposite the window. To one side of it there was a shallow alcove in which Winston was now sitting, and which, when the flats were built, had probably been intended to hold bookshelves. By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went. He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen. It was partly the unusual geography of the room that had suggested to him the thing that he was now about to do.
George Orwell - 1984.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on January 25, 2006 at 11:10 AM
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