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"Congress allowed the government to scan faces of foreign nationals to keep track of visa overstays. But now that's set to be extended to Americans worrying some privacy advocates."
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Homeland Security Says Americans Who Don't Want Faces Scanned Leaving the Country "Shouldn't Travel"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:10AM (10 children)
Soon you will be monitored, photographed, recorded and scanned every time you step out of your house. For the sake of the children and to protect you from terrorists. Only a criminal would even think to complain about it. You don't have anything to hide, do you?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:15AM (5 children)
You forgot microchipped. In your ass cheek.
Make it so that body heat or glucose can power it and you can have an active transmitter.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:32AM (1 child)
For body heat to power it there needs to be a heat sink. If it's totally surrounded by butt flesh there won't be much of a temperature gradient, except when there's an ice cube touching one side.
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:59PM
Let it use glucose and be sold as a diet device.
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(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday July 16 2017, @06:09AM (1 child)
You forgot microchipped. In your ass cheek.
Make it so that body heat or glucose can power it and you can have an active transmitter.
Make it fat-powered and the chip will have unlimited power in the US.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @02:23PM
Make it burn enough fat without exercise and you'll have trouble keeping up with demand.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:55PM
Put it deep in the wrist so you kill yourself if you try to remove it.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:17AM (1 child)
"Our cameras noticed that your wife is pretty. So we take her for her own protection."
//Special investigations(tm)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @02:25PM
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday July 16 2017, @03:49AM (1 child)
It doesn't stop at the home - you can be scanned infra-red, radar, and WiFi interference patterns through your home walls, videoed through windows, etc.
It has been done to celebrities for decades, Andy Warhol was a lightweight - we're all getting 15+ years of fame in the future, thanks to the advancement of monitoring technology.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 16 2017, @05:12AM
You missed the obvious... All those webcams and microphones and even speakers (software can pipe the mic input to the speakers) you think are off