I have spent the last few years learning everything I possibly can about biometrics, RFID and the systems and policies our government is using to stealthily lock us into a national ID. Actually, it’s worse than a national ID, it’s international.

The whole thing is complicated, too complicated.

Fortunately for me I have had the pleasure of working with a gentleman, Mark Lerner, who possesses tremendous knowledge about how it all works.  He’s also smart enough to know that while the devil truly is in the details, the truth remains simple.   This is what his body of knowledge that comes from inside the boardrooms of the Biometric industry, and from dissecting policy and working for years with legislators all over the country to craft legislation in order to stop what he discovered in those boardrooms was being planned for all of us.

He would tell you that the simple and undeniable truth (and also the reason that Mark is on a non-stop mission) is that;

And that

If that strikes you as outrageous let me assure you that the truth of that statement is based upon stone cold, demonstrable fact.  I will provide links at the end of this article for the diggers out there.  I know how you are because I’m a digger too.  I have read and dug and spent way too many hours verifying and re-verifying for myself that in fact, this is really happening.  I know so much about it that it has caused me a terrible case of information constipation. Here I am just full of information, yet often unable to relieve myself of any of it when asked a simple question.

This is something Mr. Lerner had to overcome.  And he has.  His self appointed job is to convey the meaning buried in the systems, facts and history to people who are in a position to do something about it.  The complexity of the situation is largely the reason that we have failed to comprehend the monster in our midst in the first place!

Biometric, as you probably already know,  simply means a measurement of the body-some unique aspect of you is collected, stored and shared.  Records about you are connected to this biometric data much as social security numbers have been (wrongly) used.  The trouble with biometrics is that this piece of digitized information is even more exclusive and it is literally you, a unique characteristic of your very being.  With biometrics, your Body is your ID

 I am about to start making this complicated, which I have already assured you isn’t necessary.  My apologies, I’m back on track now.

 

According to Mark Lerner, this is what we need to understand about a global biometric ID system;

To create a global biometric system, states and nations must:

Driver’s Licenses, Passports and many if not most photo ID’s use a high quality digital photograph that meets the international standards set by the ICAO.  Databases are being linked and systems made interoperable as a matter of policy and practice.  You might have heard of Fusion Centers.  They are aptly named because their function is to “fuse” data, systems, and agencies, on the state and local level, but fusion is not a center.  It is really a driving, overarching concept that our government has adopted wholeheartedly.   Sometimes the fusion concept is masked by terms like “streamlining, seamless, consolidation, reorganization or any of a number of similar terms but the reality is that the fusion is happening, we are fusing state, national and international governments, military and civilian forces, public and private entities and all the databases and systems that each of them possess. 

 The collection of our Biometrics, especially facial recognition is desired by governments partially because it allows for “at a distance” identification and allows for quick and easy categorization of the population.  That means they don’t have to mess with gaining our cooperation or permission, we don’t even have to know we are being identified or having or biometrics captured.

The importance of identification is that we are permitted (or denied) access to places, services and privileges based on what our ID indicates about our worthiness, our threat rating or whatever the entity querying decides to measure us up against.  If they have a CCTV camera and a database populated with suspects (I mean people) then they have you.

 

 

 

 

The Basics;

 

For you diggers, here just a handful of interesting documents to get you started;