If you live in the nice little Chicago suburb of Naperville, Illinois, and want a library card, soon you’ll have to give up your fingerprint.
According to a Chicago Tribune article published last Friday, the city of Naperville is installing a fingerprint scanning system to control access to its computers. Unless your fingerprint matches the one on your library card, you won’t be able to use the so-called “public” computers in Naperville’s so-called “public” libraries.
The stored numeric data cannot be used to reconstruct a fingerprint, West said, nor can it be cross-referenced with other fingerprint databases such as those kept by the FBI or the Illinois State Police.
Uh huh. I really believe that. Just how gullible do you think I am?
Thanks again to security expert Bruce Schneier for the heads-up.
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David
May 23, 2005
Benjamin Franklin wrote under many pseudonyms, and he established the first public library. The irony is not lost on most folks who realize that the freedoms of our founding fathers have been slowly eroding, mostly in the false assumption that it brings safety. Governments rarely point out that the greatest violence against civilians is perpetrated by governments, not criminals or terrorists.
This might be okay for checking out materials since you are obligating yourself to return them, and so anonymous borrowing does not make sense. But sure you should be able to use computers and read book inside the library without having to identity yourself.
Mike Jones
May 26, 2005
The stored numeric data cannot be used to reconstruct a fingerprint, West said, nor can it be cross-referenced with other fingerprint databases such as those kept by the FBI or the Illinois State Police.
Sure it can be. You may not be able to reconstruct the fingerprint from the numeric data, but you can compute the numeric data for the fingerprints stored at the FBI and then compare that numeric data against those from the library.