Dozens of police departments nationwide are gearing up to use a tech company’s already controversial iris- and facial-scanning device that slides over an iPhone and helps identify a person or track criminal suspects.
The so-called “biometric” technology, which seems to take a page from TV shows like “MI-5″ or “CSI,” could improve speed and accuracy in some routine police work in the field. However, its use has set off alarms with some who are concerned about possible civil liberties and privacy issues.
The smartphone-based scanner, named Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System, or MORIS, is made by BI2 Technologies in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and can be deployed by officers out on the beat or back at the station.
An iris scan, which detects unique patterns in a person’s eyes, can reduce to seconds the time it takes to identify a suspect in custody. This technique also is significantly more accurate than results from other fingerprinting technology long in use by police, BI2 says.
When attached to an iPhone, MORIS can photograph a person’s face and run the image through software that hunts for a match in a BI2-managed database of U.S. criminal records. Each unit costs about $3,000.
Read More at Reuters By Zach Howard, Reuters
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POLICE STATE!! POLICE STATE!! You have been warned.
Babs, the Police state has been coming down the pike for several years, TSA was the fore runner, in getting people used to being X-rayed, "patted" down, and they want their x-rays at every sporting event, every Mall, courthouse and even on the street!! The fact many people will get cancer, is no problem, it will make big pharma more money! Noticed Critical drugs are getting scarce? called Eugenics movement to get rid of a few hundred million people, soon it will be the diabetes drug!! Kill a lot more that way! FDA (Federal DEATH Administration, USDA, Big Pharma are all in on the "reduce the population" regime!!
This technology our Police can do without especially Obama's plans for a National Police Department. I never thought that i would actually see this nation turning into Big Brother!
If it will be used to get the criminal, sex offender, and illegal alien off our streets, and out of our country, I say get one for every cop in America!!
The police can start in the White House with Obama! Illegal Alien, Criminal, and probably a Sexual Deviant!