Originally Posted by Adam X

Good morning Mr. X welcome to the Beverly Center.. can you imagine walking into a mall or some public place and after an eye scanner sees you, they track and promote things to you not to mention know all about you.. or arrest you if you're wanted !! ?? Imagine that db getting hacked and peoples records being corrupted... this has FAIL all over it.



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:
http://gizmodo.com/5615901/the-end-o...e-city-of-leon <--- check out the vids