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Vein Recognition and Biometrics Around the World.

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While the United States appears to be playing the role of big brother incredibly well, we are only trying to keep up with the Joneses in Europe as well as governments in Asia and the Middle East where privacy is nothing but a footnote in a history book.

In Europe, the United Kingdom and Germany are leading the pack in the fight against personal privacy and basic rights as they are moving closer and closer to just inserting microchips into the brain of every newborn.

While Asian nations like China and North Korea have their own ways of keeping their citizens in line, Japan has come up with a way to track and “secure” bank transactions by having a fingerprint or vein sensor (that do not work) rather than a card.

Seeing as how Iraq is now all but a colony of the United States, the Iraqi government has required that every Iraqi receive a biometric identification card that can be used to keep tabs on them.

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Vein Recognition and Biometrics in Europe

Seeing as how the Europeans (who argue they are simply more modernized than other nations) fight the war on privacy every day, it is fitting that they lead the pack in everything short of human chip implant tracking, though that is coming also.

The British have been proving that progressive policy like nationalized everything, ultra-high tax rates is just a predecessor to the end of privacy which serves as the predecessor the oft mentioned Orwellian society.

Aside from running every aspect of every one of their citizen’s life, the British and the Germans have ensured that everything that they do not run they can monitor through biometric data collection at every step.

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Vein Recognition and Biometrics in Asia

Countries like China and North Korea, stuck in the stone age, have their own way of rejecting people privacy and make no bones about it. It is the modernized countries like Japan that are the real problem.

Japan has introduced a system to “improve security in banking” by requiring that the Japanese have their finger or vein (yes, their vein) scanned at Automatic Teller Machines rather than have a card.

Rather than improve security, the program has resulted in the biggest security fiasco possible, allowing two-percent of false entries into the account.

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Vein Recognition and Biometrics in the Middle East

It is only fitting that Iraq, essentially a colony of the United States, leads the pack in modern privacy rights invasion in the Middle East.

Similar to Asia, while nations like Iran and Saudi Arabia do not deny their invasions, Iraq does.

To try to keep track of what is going on in the nation that the United States so heroically threw into a complete mess, the Iraqi government is providing every Iraqi with a microchip identification card that cannot be forged and can be used to track the whereabouts and information of any individual.

Next step, tagging every newborn.

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