Does the extensive use of Biometrics encourage further state involvement in our physical existence?

Question

Our fingerprints, iris or retina scan are something considered to be uniquely owned by a human being. The intereference of public sphere (which initially had to only with the figure of "person", public persona, that is political body) into our body is becoming more and more visible today and to mention even crucial in the age of international crime and growing intolerance. On one hand we left with our security and on the other we are deprived everyday little by little what is left of our precious physical existence.
I don't expect your answers to be in line with overly scrutinized academical staff like biopolitcs or scaredness of biological being, researched by Foucault and everybosy else. Only your opinion that counts

Answer 1

of course it does!

then again biometrics are needed for thinks like CIA safes and stuff

but we don't need them in our daily life (ex. go in a restaurant, and have your retina scanned just to use a credit card? i dont think so) cause then they just further government involvement in our "physical existence"

Answer 2

I always find it interesting the people consider issues such as privacy in line with where society was more than 200 years ago.

Technology only keeps pace with the demand that is placed upon society. For example, the right to carry a weapon was formulated at a time when there were no police forces to regular the public peace.

We are a very literal society that has no consideration for how society has changed over time.

Individual rights does not preclude societal rights. As a member of society, I also have a right to be protected from you -- that may include what you might consider an invasion of your privacy.

Unfortunately, for some countries like the US, the government documents were single minded and didn't focus on the rights of the society in addition to the rights of the individual.

Whe the mentally ill patients is able to secure a gun and shoot you and your family, we can ask again how you feel about privacy.

When your iris scan protects your money in the bank, your assets, and your employer from being robbed and your pay coming, we can ask again how you feel about such precautions.

Of course, if people want was the original intention of the formal documents of their governments, they could also look at what the society was like at the time.

Answer 3

Unless you are somebody very good, or very bad, all that data biometrics has on you, no one will read. No one will track. Because the people who use such data, will be spending too much time keeping track of really bad people. And THAT alone will be a full time job.

So computers know what we do every minute of our days. Most of us, they would fall asleep after one day of reading about our daily lives.