High Tech Passports

Natasha · Post by **Natasha** » Fri 17 October 2003 4:29 pm

High Tech Passports

MOSCOW (MT)

Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov said Tuesday that Russians will start receiving high-tech foreign travel passports at the end of next year as part of worldwide efforts to prevent terrorism.

The new passports will incorporate a microchip storing biometric information about the holder, such as fingerprints, iris scans and electronic facial signatures, Gazeta reported Gryzlov as saying.

By complicating fraud of the documents the measure will clamp down on freedom of movement of terrorists, the report said.

Russia is moving to introduce the new passports under an action plan to counter terrorism signed last May by the G-8 countries, Gryzlov said. The database will cost between $400 million and $750 million, Gazeta reported.

Some 8 million Russians, or roughly one in 10 adults, who currently possess foreign travel passports will have to exchange them for the new ones, the newspaper said.

**Has anyone else heard of this? The article mentions the G-8 countries, so are we to assume that this will be standard in the US as well?

rebecca · Post by **rebecca** » Fri 17 October 2003 5:14 pm

Sounds like something from one of those dystopian, futuristic novels. I heard speculations about something like that a while ago. Some sort of national identification system...Where will this all end? Technology will definitely be an enabling force in the future persecution of Christians and the government of the Antichrist.

OrthodoxyOrDeath · Sat 18 October 2003 10:26 am

That is very interesting; I have long suspected the "war on terrorism" would result in something such as this.

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Sat 18 October 2003 11:30 am

Just wait, soon enough 'they' will require everyone to implant little devices in our badies. It will start out 'innocently' with only having medical information on it, but will eventually contain one's whole life on it. A family in Florida already has the implant

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/ ... 20510.html

http://www.iahf.com/other/20020516.html

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/020131a.asp

Грешник · Post by **Грешник** » Sat 18 October 2003 12:15 pm

This reminds me of the whole 'microchip' issue a few years ago where a family here in the US in the Midwest I believed consented to having a chip implanted underneath their skin for "medical purposes".

I am not sure where this is all headed...

BTW I hate needles so they aren't getting me "chipped" I'll tell ya that right now.

JMM

OrthodoxyOrDeath · Post by **OrthodoxyOrDeath** » Mon 20 October 2003 5:53 pm

"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervour, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar." {"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare}

Daniel · Post by **Daniel** » Mon 20 October 2003 7:20 pm

In some what of the same vein:

Those who would sacrfice essential liberties for temporary safety, deserve neither safety nor liverty-Benjamin Franklin, not sure from were.