biometrics

...the effort to biometrically register the population and the transition to cashless economy are  intimately related....  the latest word from Davos is India will to skip over card-based cashless payments and go straight to biometric e-payments.

President Trump’s new Executive Order on “terrorist” (sic) entry calls on the Department of Homeland Security to “expedite the completion and implementation of a biometric entry-exit tracking system for all travelers to the United States.”

...this system is being lusted after by would-be tyrants in every corner of the globe. This month's case-in-point: Venezuela! That's right, citizens of everyone's favorite socialist paradise are about to be treated to a new ID card...

Yes, biometric ID is rolling out in India and over a billion people are being locked away behind its electronic bars.