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From: Ed Stasiak <user1263@newsgrouper.org.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Problems With Immortality
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Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:31:59 GMT
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> BTR1701
> 
> Now, however, any arrest will enshrine your fingerprints and DNA in a national
> database forever. If you're arrested again 90 years later, questions will
> arise.
> 
> As for employment, there's a gray market for jobs 

Most manufacturing jobs use finger print scanner time clocks nowadays,
so there's the issue of some fly-by-night outsourced company that runs
the service, having your fingerprints on digital file somewhere and who
knows who has access to them, now and in the future.

I mentioned this before, but there was a case in Australia where a company
implemented bio-metric security system (using a retinal scan, IIRC) and
one employee refused to provide his bio-metric data to the fly-by-night
outsourced company that ran the service and when he was fired, he sued.

His position was that the outsourced company couldn't guarantee the
security of his bio-metric data and that had nothing to do with his job
for his employer.

The Australian courts ruled in his favor but it only applied to him because
he was an employee _before_ the bio-metric security system was installed,
new employees are screwed...