« BBC Slight Retraction
BBC terrorist journalist strikes again: Heathrow Terminal 5 »

Idiocracy Part n+1

March 21st, 2008

Jan Bledsoe was shocked Thursday to learn she can no longer just swipe her finger across a screen at the local Jewel store to buy her groceries because the bankrupt company behind the technology no longer will process such transactions.

“I’m concerned because I didn’t know it wasn’t Jewel that I’d given my information and fingerprints to,” said Bledsoe of Lake Villa. “The girls at the Jewel were as surprised as anyone” that the system was shut down.

Bledsoe was among thousands of disappointed customers to learn that Solidus Networks Inc., a provider of payment processing, is no longer operating its biometrics unit. The firm’s failure prompted some financial analysts to question whether technology that relies on biological information to identify a customer is ready for the market’s mainstream.

[…]

Although biometrics is far from perfect, it offers consumers an option for making purchases with minimum hassle and no need to remember passwords.

“Commercial biometrics is inevitable,” said Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley-based trend forecaster. “There are huge risks, but it’s just so cheap and convenient, people won’t be able to resist it. Whenever Americans face a choice between privacy and convenience, they always choose convenience.”

[…]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/

There are so many examples of Idiocracy out there, we need a category just 4 it.

Related posts:

  1. The Queen’s Speech, or Why BLOGDIAL is and has been so very great Take a look at this: After massive public rejection of the surveillance state, and country wide vandalism of the millions of......
  2. CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police Owen Bowcott The Guardian, Tuesday May 6 2008 Massive investment in CCTV cameras to prevent crime in the UK has failed......
  3. Fools rush in: Nick Clegg ‘Mr. FAIL’ Nick Clegg chimes in on the Guardian with a well crafted piece demonstrating his complete lack of understanding of what the......
  4. Lie lie lie and lie again The BBQ is at it again, uncritically repeating the state’s lies: Paedophile checks scheme defended This is not a system of......
  5. Here we go again: the Times Education Supplement calls for the creation of ContactPoint 2.0 The Times Education Supplement is wrongly named. It should in fact be called The Times School Supplement. The people who work......
  6. ID Cards 2.0 – Assured Identity In today’s Telegraph, we read, with not too much surprise, that The Coalition is quietly bringing in ID Cards for all,......
  7. Violent artists declare war on the 21st Century Thanks to a lurder (yes, ‘lurder’) who knows just what buttons to push to cause a BLOGDIAL post to emerge, we......

This entry was posted on Friday, March 21st, 2008 at 7:45 pm and is filed under Idiocracy, Insanity, NIR, No no no!, Post Tipping Point, Someone Stupid Said.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.