IBM Head: Stop Fighting And “Embrace” Total Biometric Surveillance Because It Cannot Be Stopped !

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• IBM Head: Stop Fighting And “Embrace” Total Biometric Surveillance Because It Cannot Be Stopped! 
  by Steve Watson, www.Prisonplanet.com
  “Everything will be monitored” 
  A leading IBM official has urged the world to “embrace” ubiquitous surveillance of the public through biometrics, because, he argues, it is too late to fight against it.
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  “…trying to stop this would be fighting the wrong battle.” said Peter Waggetts Emerging Technology Group. Waggett added, speaking at a Nesta panel debate on biometrics.
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  “The information is out of the bottle already — we have to deal with the issues surrounding it now. Embrace the challenge of what we’ve got, embrace understanding it and focus on what we can do with that new data.” he argued, urging people to stop worrying about preventing such surveillance from becoming a societal norm.
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  “I’ve been working in biometrics for 20 years, and it’s reaching a tipping point where it’s going to be impossible not to understand where people are and what they are doing. Everything will be monitored.” Waggett continued.
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  Alarming to privacy advocates, Waggett’s words also carry more weight, given that he also heads the BSI British Standards Biometrics Committee – a Royal Chartered group that is concerned with developing formal standards in the area of biometrics and promoting their use by government and industry.
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  During the debate, as Wired reports, Waggett referred specifically to depictions of biometric technology in dystopian films such as Minority Report, arguing that such technology is now already in place and unavoidable.
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  In the film, adapted from Philip K. Dick’s story, the general populace is subjected to total surveillance in the form of Iris scanners linked to a biometric database. The surveillance is often dressed up as or doubled up with targeted advertising and the promotion of mass consumption.
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