Privacy in the Age of Big Data by Theresa Payton & Ted Claypoole

Author:Theresa Payton & Ted Claypoole
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2023-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

A MOUNTAIN OF DATA ON THE HORIZON

We are only at the start of the biometric revolution. Before long, biometric collection and data will overwhelm us. Law enforcement databases, already stocked with millions of readings, will cover everyone born in the industrialized world.

This should come as no surprise. The hospitals where we were born took our baby footprints and kept them in a file, so why wouldn’t future hospitals take a small DNA sample of all babies and file the samples away in a digital database? Now, even those baby footprints are digitally scanned into a database at some hospitals.

As reading human characteristics becomes cheaper, easier, and simpler to do from a distance, governments and businesses will use these readings to know where we go and how long we stay.

Soon voice readings will tell the listener who we are and whether we are hostile or friendly. Some businesses already use voice readings to know if a customer is distressed or relaxed when calling the service line, so why won’t businesses read our voices, posture, and even brain waves to know whether their sales pitch is working and when we are ready to buy?

The government currently takes facial pictures and fingerprints for certain visa holders entering the country. How long before those measurements are used to test how nervous travelers are about crossing the border, flagging them as possible smugglers or terrorists?

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