{"id":17387,"date":"2014-06-04T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T18:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17387"},"modified":"2014-06-04T11:26:28","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T18:26:28","slug":"omni-biometric-surveillance-coming-to-your-neighborhood-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/04\/omni-biometric-surveillance-coming-to-your-neighborhood-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Omni-biometric surveillance: Coming to your neighborhood soon &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; courtesy of the U.S. military and the <a href=\"http:\/\/publicintelligence.net\/identity-dominance\/\" target=\"_blank\">war in Afghanistan<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe stated goal of the Afghan effort is no less than the collection of biometric data for every living person in Afghanistan.  At a conference with Afghan officials in 2010, the commander of the U.S. Army\u2019s Task Force Biometrics Col. Craig Osborne told the attendees that the collection of biometric data is not simply about \u201cidentifying terrorists and criminals,\u201d but that \u201cit can be used to enable progress in society and has countless applications for the provision of services to the citizens of Afghanistan.\u201d  According to Osborne, biometrics provide the Afghan government with \u201cidentity dominance\u201d enabling them to know who their citizens are and link actions with actors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep. It&#8217;s always tried out first on prisoners, &#8220;enemies,&#8221; the mentally defective, children, and others who aren&#8217;t in a position to resist effectively. Then it comes to <i>our<\/i> neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>But no problem! Hey, it&#8217;s to help &#8220;provision of services&#8221;! I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll drop the creepy &#8220;identity dominance&#8221; discription when it comes time to apply all this to us. It&#8217;ll go away. Just like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Total_Information_Awareness\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Total Information Awareness&#8221;<\/a> did. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/06\/04\/omni-biometric-surveillance-coming-to-your-neighborhood-soon\/totalinformationawareness_logo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TotalInformationAwareness_logo-450x457.png\" alt=\"TotalInformationAwareness_logo\" width=\"450\" height=\"457\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Article is from April. I just found it this morning &#8212; and I don&#8217;t think much will have changed (at least not changed for the better) since it was published.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; courtesy of the U.S. military and the war in Afghanistan. The stated goal of the Afghan effort is no less than the collection of biometric data for every living person in Afghanistan. At a conference with Afghan officials in 2010, the commander of the U.S. Army\u2019s Task Force Biometrics Col. Craig Osborne told the attendees that the collection of biometric data is not simply about \u201cidentifying terrorists and criminals,\u201d but that \u201cit can be used to enable progress in society and has countless applications for the provision of services to the citizens of Afghanistan.\u201d According to Osborne, biometrics provide&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/04\/omni-biometric-surveillance-coming-to-your-neighborhood-soon\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Omni-biometric surveillance: Coming to your neighborhood soon &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}