What Will You Do When You Can No Longer Buy Or Sell Without Submitting To Biometric Identification?Michael Snyder And without a doubt, we have some massive security problems that need to be addressed. But do you really want a machine to read your face or your hand before you are able to buy anything, sell anything or log on to the Internet? Do you really want the system to be able to know where you are, what you are buying and what you are doing at virtually all times? Biometric security systems are being promoted as cool and cutting edge, but there is also potentially a very dark side to them that should not be ignored. In this day and age, identity theft has become a giant problem. Being able to confirm that you are who you say that you are is a very big deal. To many, biometric security presents a very attractive solution to this problem. For example, the following is a brief excerpt from a recent Fox News article entitled Biometric security cant come soon enough for some people For now, biometric security is not being forced on people. If you want to avoid it, you can. But eventually, once it has been adopted on a widespread basis, banks and government agencies will start requiring it. And it is easy to imagine a day when none of us will any longer be able to buy or sell anything without submitting to biometric identification. In fact, an alternative payment method involving hand scanning is already being tested in southern Sweden But before biometric identification is widely used for payment systems, we will probably see it implemented in a whole bunch of other ways first. For instance, biometric scanners are already being used in dining halls on college campuses all across America Young people tend to be less alarmed by this technology, and so that is where it is being pushed. If you can believe it, biometric scanners are even going to be used at Six Flags amusement park this summer This kind of reminds me of the new MagicBands at Disney parks that I have written about previously. You have probably seen the television commercials featuring them by now. Disney seems to think that parents and kids will have no problems wearing RFID tracking devices that allow them to buy stuff and monitor wherever they go. If you want to see what Disney has to say about these MagicBands, you can do so right here. Our world is becoming stranger with each passing day. Incredibly, biometric identification is even being used in Africa to keep track of who is being vaccinated This technology is going to keep spreading, and it is going to become harder and harder to avoid it. And it is easy to imagine what a tyrannical government could do with this kind of technology. If it wanted to, it could use it to literally track the movements and behavior of everyone. We are already starting to see the establishment of massive biometric databases. One of these is the FBIs facial recognition database that is a part of their Next Generation Identification program. It is being projected that the FBI will have compiled 52 million of our face images by the year 2015. And one day, this kind of technology will likely be so pervasive that you wont be able to open a bank account, get a credit card or even buy anything without having either your hand or your face scanned first. When that day arrives, what will you do? That is something to think about. About the author: Michael T. Snyder is a former Washington D.C. attorney who now publishes The Truth. His new thriller entitled The Beginning Of The End is now available on Amazon.com. 