In The Name of Security! What's Liberty and Privacy Agian?

(Photo source findbiometrics.com)

Delaware is officially in contest to be the first state in the Soviet, I mean United States Union to “offer” citizens digital licenses on smart phones (1). Delaware is among several provinces, sorry, states of which includes Iowa, and California. The app for these states will require facial recognition or passcode. But why burn calories typing in a passcode with your thumbs when you can just offer your face up so much easier and conveniently?
Cyber security company Gemalto, a multinational company that has over 180 clients world wide and located in 48 countries, has been awarded a $2 million grant to develop the pilot program in Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and Washington D.C. As well (2). This being an addition to the $21,169,317,896,244 in U.S. debt (5) and rising as of my writing this (5/2/18). What another $2 million when you can just endlessly print of paper and call it money right? In states who’s digital license app will be bein worked on by Gemalto, there will be biometric data attached to the security system of the license app. It’s just so much safe, easier this way. “The digitize licenses will be more secure than ever, requiring a PIN or finger print.”(2) Rights to your own bodies data? Well we’re all about security in this country, and anything to make us feel more safe. What a great thing, that our benevolent enforcers will have access to our finger prints, and I’m sure that’s just the beginning. At first it was offered on smart phones as a substitute for a the security code and though this was offered by a private company the government has had back doors built in device products to attain such meta data as needed. And I’m sure that is just the beginning. The Chinese have had them built in with some of our U.S. phones sending all of our text messages to a data bank in China for years (3), and you can bet that if China is able to do this to U.S. Citizens, our own government can. And like science, a good rule of thumb is, “if they can, they will”. As long as they don’t get caught of course. Besides, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about.
Gemalto is being bought by a company called Thales which is a multi national security whale claiming to be in pursuit of becoming a “global digital security leader”. Thales works closely with Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan Securities securing a €4 billion “fully committed credit agreement” for the purchase. It’s like the justice league of business getting together to make us feel safe. Not spyed on. Safe. (4) There will be an integration team of Gemalto board members including Alex J. Mandl named “One of America’s Most powerful Business Men”, by Forbes magazine. Thales’ board of directors consists of Yannick d’Escatha, Anne-Claire Tittinger and Phillippe Lépinay to name a few (4). All of which are foreign, multi national business people, obviously with connections to our friend in the multi national banking system.
So these are the people who will be harvesting our data of biometrics to allow us proles a convenient way to use our I.D.’s. Especially when, according to Jennifer Cohan of DelDot out of Delaware, “ you can do everything that you need to do with a regular driver’s license, with this app”. And what a smile smile she has while showing off her flashy new app. Defenses dropped instantly.

DelDOT Secretary Jennifer Cohan shows her digital driver's license on her cellphone. (Mark Eichmann/WHYY). (1)

My question is, if this is the case, why do we need to digitize? Is it so that police can scan your phone using blue tooth and bring up your I.D., and see who you are and your biometrics as you drive by (1). Is it so they can lovingly store your finger prints, iris scan and possibly your DNA in some far away data base, against your will? Is this so much easier than actually having to lower your hand, get into your purse or wallet, and pull your I.D. out? I know that can be asking a lot at time but, if it’s digitized on your phone, you actually have to move your thumbs to bring the lis nice to screen. Though we have been trained to use our thumbs more than our arms over the years. I’ll give them that. Maybe, we should hand over more of our data to more large companies owned by more elitists who make deals with governments they know are illegally spying on us. Why not right? If you have nothing to hide, then what’s the problem? It’s not like privacy is fundamental to living in a free society as Stephan Malyneux has pointed out. It’s not like wars have been fought, mass quantities of souls lost, to protect or gain the fundamental right to freedom and pricacy. Why not give it up without a fight. Willingly, happily, with a big drug induced smile on our faces.
I hope I don’t have to answer any of these questions to anyone. We should all know the answers. But, if you don’t, be sure to take your Soma!
Alright, alright, all joking aside. The point is, there is a point to this digitizations and it goes much deeper than their smiling faces let on. We should be asking ourselves, “ Why is it that a government in incomprehensible (literally, the number 21 trillion is unfathomable to the mind) amounts of debt, with an economy on stilts, would spend an extra $2 million just in three states to digitize a license that has worked just fine for decades and decades?” In the words of James Corbett “All your data are belong to them”, and if it doesn’t make sense, then there’s probably something else going on that is deeper or that we’re not being told about. This is most definitely a topic that deserves further discussion and investigation (which I intend on doing), so that we may find a solution to dealing with the mis-dealings of our fearless leaders.

“Before Sept. 11, the idea that Americans would voluntarily agree to live their lives under the gaze of a network of biometric surveillance cameras, peering at them in government buildings, shopping malls, subways and stadiums, would have seemed unthinkable, a dystopian fantasy of a society that had surrendered privacy and anonymity.”