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URI ICE has spent over $25M on iris scanners in no-bid contracts
ChrisArchitect wrote 20 min ago:
[dupe]
URI [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252720
dstnn wrote 43 min ago:
Didn't the state of NY spend a lot more turning misdemeanors to
felonies for Trump and Alvin Bragg?
Were supposed to be nerds. We're supposed to be above the politics and
just the facts
tokai wrote 1 hour 56 min ago:
Are iris scans valid like fingerprints, where we just hand wave away
that it might not be reliable?
AlotOfReading wrote 34 min ago:
I'm not sure whether they're biologically unique (as fingerprints are
not), but the way standard scanners work has both false positive
matches and false negatives. NIST maintains benchmarks for biometric
errors, which are usually in the tenths of a percent range.
I guess you should hope none of your hundreds of thousands of iris
neighbors are placed on the list?
josefritzishere wrote 2 hours 2 min ago:
No-bid contracts are prohibited by FAR. So that's probably kickbacks.
ck2 wrote 2 hours 17 min ago:
When I saw them using Iris scanners in Iraq 20+ years ago, I just knew
they were going to start scanning people in the US with them
Keep in mind they are using them BEFORE a person is under arrest and
even just protestors
If they can do that, someday there is going to be exponential
resolution advancement where a Flock camera can do it from a distance
Imagine being able to walk up to a crowd and just iris scan everyone
from a distance, that day is coming, it's just a technical limit for
now (instead today they collect BLE and wifi mac addresses on your
phones)
ex1fm3ta wrote 10 min ago:
they did the same thing in Afghanistan and some scanners were found
by the talibans once american soldiers left. Somebody even bought
these from ebay and retro-engineered the software to access the data.
Edit: Article from New York Times
URI [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/technology/for-sale-on-eb...
sbayg wrote 42 min ago:
I wear my sunglasses at night.
NDlurker wrote 1 hour 45 min ago:
Swap out colored contact lenses frequently.
Maybe someone will figure out how to make Rorschach style morphing
lenses with thermochromic pigments.
Edit: found these after doing some searches on diy contact lenses and
thermochromic lenses [1]
URI [1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220066236A1/en
URI [2]: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10643561/
wil421 wrote 1 hour 57 min ago:
Weâve all seen minority report. Some executive somewhere is foaming
at the mouth to scan your iris and connect the data broker dots when
you walk into a store.
Iâm sure theyâre already fingerprinting your iPhone or scanning
your face when you walk into certain places. Some team is probably
working on an Iris scanner.
vgeek wrote 30 min ago:
Pretty sure this is Sam Altman's Worldcoin's objective?
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