There are significant privacy and civil liberties concerns regarding the use of such devices that must be addressed before any widespread deployment. Briefly there are six major areas of concern:

Storage. How is the data stored, centrally or dispersed? How should scanned data be retained?

Vulnerability. How vulnerable is the data to theft or abuse?

Confidence. How much of an error factor in the technology’s authentication process is acceptable? What are the implications of false positives and false negatives created by a machine?

Authenticity. What constitutes authentic information? Can that information be tampered with?

Linking. Will the data gained from scanning be linked with other information about spending habits, etc.? What limits should be placed on the private use (as contrasted to government use) of such technology?

Ubiquity. What are the implications of having a electronic trail of our every movement if cameras and other devices become commonplace, used on every street corner and every means of transportation?

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