Minority Report: Your Iris Can Now Be Scanned From Across the RoomBy Melissa Dykes Now someone has invented long range iris scans. In other words, they can literally scan your iris and identify you from across the room. Via The Atlantic: An officer pulls someone over on the side of the highway. The cop sits in the car a moment, runs the platestheyre fineand gets out of the car. As he or she approach the drivers side window, the driver pulls out a gun, shoots the officer, and flees. This is something close to what happened in Long Island earlier this year, when a Suffolk County police officer was shot during a traffic stop. Unlike the recent traffic-stop shooting in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the suspect in the New York case, police told CBS, was a known gang member. Marios Savvides, a Carnegie Mellon engineering professor, says hes invented the fix: a long-range iris scanner that can identify someone as they glance at their rear-view mirror. In other words, its technology that could potentially identify a dangerous suspect before the cop even gets out of the car. It is the first effective long-range iris scanner, he says. So it starts with a justification and all the positive reasons why we need this technology. Meanwhile, privacy in our technocratic police state is pretty much extinct. For all the good these kinds of technologies might potentially do, the downside always seems to vastly outweigh any positives the system can come up with to justify and sell it to us. Two words: Minority Report. Related selfnews Post Article: Melissa Dykes is a writer, researcher, and analyst for The Daily Sheeple, where this article first appeared, and a co-creator of Truthstream Media with Aaron Dykes, a site that offers teleprompter-free, unscripted analysis of The Matrix we find ourselves living in. Melissa also co-founded Nutritional Anarchy with Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper, a site focused on resistance through food self-sufficiency. Wake the flock up! 