Apple iPhone 5s Fingerprint Database To Be Shared With NSA

[Ares]

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Tech-heads are eager to get their hands on the new Apple iPhone 5S next month and evidently Apple feels the same. This is due to the fact that their latest model comes equipped with fingerprint recognition technology as an added security feature.

Privacy has become a major concern in today’s technologically dominated society. Individuals keeping up with all the latest gadgets also run the risk of becoming exposed to unresolved bugs that could leave the user open to breaches in their personal security.

Apple’s official spokespeople have maintained a vague stance on the potential of sharing their fingerprint database with the NSA. Fortunately, after hours of phone calls I was finally able to speak with an employe that could answer some of my questions.

“Absolutely the databases will be merged. This whole ‘fingerprint scan’ idea originated from someone in our Government. They just didn’t expect to be outed by Snowden, you know.” Said Tim Richardson, District Manager of Apple’s North America Marketing Department. He went onto explain that the NSA and FBI have been compiling a special database for over a year now to use with the new Apple technology. Fingerprints from all over the nation. Cold cases. Fugitives of the law. Missing persons.

The Apple iPhone 5s has back-up power so the device never completely shuts down. Coupled with the phone’s built-in GPS these features will allow police officers to pin-point the criminal so they can be detained quickly and efficiently. Officials expect to apprehend hundreds of suspects within the first months or so of the act.

When asked for a response to individual’s concerns about privacy Mr. Richardson told us:

“Frankly, if a person is foolish enough to allow something as specific and criminally implicit as their fingerprints to be cataloged by faceless corporations and Government officials… Well, you can’t exactly blame us for capitalizing upon it, can you? Personally, I believe this effort will support a greater good. Some of the folks they’re hoping to apprehend are quite dangerous. Besides, it’s not like this is covered in the Constitution.” (Ares Response - Nice, basically he says if you're stupid enough to buy our product we're gonna capitalize on your stupidity)

Richardson was indeed correct in his latter statement; We looked over the Constitution and couldn’t find a single mention of using fingerprints against a public that willfully submitted them.

While Apple and the NSA may be completely within their rights to use information volunteered by it’s customers, some consumers are sour over the idea.

“I’m old. I’m not good at remembering passwords.” Said one Apple user we spoke with. “I like the idea of easily being able to unlock my Apple device with a fingerprint. But I also shouldn’t have to worry about being tied to a string of murders I commuted in the 70′s… That’s not America and that’s not freedom…”

Programers have been working day and nights to have the Apple 5S ready for its release in late September. They claim the software is 90% accurate and while there are still some technical issues to iron out, they believe it’s unlikely any mishaps will occur.”

UPDATE: Apple iOS 7 Update Gives Law Enforcement Unlimited Access To User’s Personal Data

NYPD was recently spotted handing out flyers to Apple customers all throughout New york City. The leaflets insisted users upgrade their iPhones to the new Apple iOS 7.

Law enforcement officials claim their efforts are to “help curb the theft and reuse of Apple iPhone devices.” After light of Apple’s recent dealings with the NSA it’s widely speculated that the Apple iOS 7 upgrade’s sole purpose is to make the system more compatible for the NSA’s acquisition of Apple customer’s personal data.

It’s poetic that a city dubbed “The Big Apple” would be ground zero for Apple’s breakthrough in surveying American citizens. NYC has become hyper-vigilant against potential terrorist attacks since the unfortunate 9/11 bombings. A “relaxed” police state has been implemented in order to secure our freedom and personal safety.

I spoke with National Report’s NYPD insider to unearth the police department’s true connection with the Apple iOS 7 update. He confirmed that the NYPD have put together a special task force to work on the Apple iPhone Recovery Team. Their primary objective is to use the information gathered from Apple and the NSA to hunt down law breakers and other threats to our liberty. He went on to explain:

“The NYPD has been working closely with the NSA to eradicate terrorism, domestic and otherwise. Now, with Apple’s help, we have the personal information of all their clients, including passwords, photographs, even fingerprints. It has made the apprehension of criminals doubly easy for us.

I realize there’s a lot of people who are frightened or angered at the idea of some stranger rifling through their iPad’s files. Let me put it to you like this:

No one feels ashamed when the Doctor sees them nude during a physical. Why? Well Doctors are trained medical professionals, of course. The same idea should apply to law enforcement. When we’re reading your emails or remotely turning on your webcam to make sure everything’s alright, just remember: we are trained professionals of the law.

I assure the general public that their information is in safe hands–The safest hands. It is in the hands of the United States Government and the men and women who are sword to protect it.”

His statements gave me a great feeling of relief. Suddenly, I realized the full potential of the threats we are facing in today’s world. I know there’s nothing I can do to prevent Apple from selling off my information to Big Brother. Maybe we should all be grateful that there’s companies out there that care enough about American citizens to do not what is popular, but what is right. I can now rest assured with the knowledge that my private correspondences are protected with the utmost respect for my rights.

http://nationalreport.net/apple-iphone-5s-fingerprint-database/

[EE_]

Mark of the Beast Update: New iPhones Store Biometric Data

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http://vineoflifenews.com/mark-of-the-beast-update-new-iphones-store-biometric-data/

My Comment: Here we go!! We are inching closer to closer to a world governmental system that can track and monitor every person. The Mark of the Beast technology is being implemented slowly but surely. If you have not read my post on the Mark of the Beast and the RFID chip, you should. Pretty soon everyone on the planet will have to make a choice, whether they will take the mark of the beast or not. Once you take the mark, there is no going back. It seals you for eternal damnation. Think about it.

iPhone 5 Fingerprint Scans Pave Way to Biometric Future
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As the iPhone goes, so goes the world.

The consumerist world is buzzing this week with news that Apple’s new iPhone 5S will include a creepy fingerprint scan to unlock the phone and facilitate the ‘secure’ purchase of apps and other products.

That’s right, the unsettling development of biometric identification is moving forward in lockstep with the cashless control grid on one of the most widely popular communications technologies in history, all in the wake of fallout over the extent of NSA surveillance programs that monitor and collect data from the communications of ordinary Americans.

In attempt to stay one step ahead of privacy concerns, Apple has emphasized that the fingerprint is only stored locally on the phone not on remote cloud servers. However, it is not clear whether or not Apple may still have access to fingerprint data, or whether it is shared through any other systems, or could be hacked remotely or via the physical phone.

Further, the iPhone 5S will ‘only’ store a data log identifying your fingerprint, and not a digital image of the actual fingerprint images, though, vulnerabilities clearly still exist.

“Fingerprints are not fool-proof and can be duplicated and as the usage of this technology increases, we can expect that duplication technology will improve as well.” Mark Rogers, of the firm Lookout, told the Daily Mail.

At this point, users should engage this latest tech update with extreme caution, though droves of fanatical first wave purchasers seems more likely.

It was revealed in April 2011 that the iPhone 4 was storing a hidden log of user location data (approximated based on surrounding cell towers and WiFi hotspots) as well as logging timestamps and other data, creating a big enough data picture for some serious privacy concerns. Apple, however, immediately downplayed the significance, just as it has with concerns over fingerprint scans and the iPhone 5, claiming that the log was only kept locally and never sent to Apple or used for tracking.

However, the recent NSA leaks on PRISM and other mass surveillance programs, which revealed collaboration between spy agencies and tech firms, including Microsoft, Google and Apple, give enough reason to be skeptical of such reassurances. Generally speaking, companies have not been upfront where they should have been with their customers on how data was used – potentially or actually – by unseen hands.

Specifically, it was revealed that the NSA did have the capability of cracking smartphone encryption and hacking users ‘most sensitive’ data through backdoor technology that even the companies may not have known about. Whether fingerprint scans could be among the ‘exploitable’ identifying information the spy agency might target or collect remains to be seen.

Police, schools and businesses have given assurances that fingerprint scans taken at roadside stops, interrogations, school lunch programs, libraries, points of sale and various access and authentication points are not being stored, but instead are converted into algorithms which supposedly cannot be reverse engineered.

This point is reiterated by defenders of the new iPhone, as in the Washington Post’s Everyone Calm Down About the iPhone’s fingerprint scanner. But can these assurances really be trusted? (Many government officials are still denying that the NSA is spying on average Americans.) And should we really be naive enough to engage this system at every turn with increasing amounts of extremely personal information?

Critics have warned that thieves have already resorted to dismembering victims to use their body parts to gain access to protected and encrypted areas, and that such shocking events would occur with widespread use of the iPhone 5. It’s the kind of biometric backlash long-since featured in Hollywood films like Mission: Impossible or Minority Report, where the heroes borrow eyeballs and fingers to trick checkpoint scanners. Engineers have fought back by developing “life check” software that measures for pulse and perspiration in order to verify that the finger is on a living being. But those technologies can be defeated too, and immerse the user even more fully into the bioscanning environment – and philosophically intertwine biological life and technology even further, while increasing control.

‘Experts’ and ‘officials’ are increasingly claiming that passwords are too confusing and vulnerable, and thus will soon be chucked out the window. One voice joining that chorus is Regina Dugan, who has worked on high level projects for DARPA, Google and Motorola, and has now advocated using electronic tattoos and ingested, encrypted authentication pills that make the “whole body” a biometric password that can be used for online and physical verification.

These an other developments, like Homeland Security’s Trusted Traveler program, make clear that the powers that be intend for the emerging future to be “secured” and based around authenticated and verified persons, places, things and transactions, backed up and controlled by biometric data.

Use of biometric data has been a long time coming. It was foundational to the Eugenics movement started in 1883 by Sir Francis Galton, first cousin to Charles Darwin, in turn a foundational figure in the rising paradigm of science-based public policy surrounding the popularization of the Theory of Natural Selection. Galton is also known for being the ‘father of biometrics,’ having founded the journal Biometrika. Galton tied fingerprints, hair samples, eye color and other identifying measurements of the human body (anthropometry) to the growing Eugenics movement. In the U.S., the Eugenics Records Office collected and stored genealogical histories, interviews and biometric data for at least hundreds of thousands of Americans. Under positive eugenics, the ‘fit’ genetic pools, supposedly gifted with the best heritage, were encouraged to reproduce, while negative eugenics identified ‘undesirable’ peoples and pushed for laws and policies that identification the “feebleminded” and “unfit,” allowing for forced sterilization, mandatory birth control and economic disincentives meant to decrease target population sizes and hand power over life to the State.

Eugenics laws and closely related public health policies were passed in the United States, as well as the UK, later spreading to Nazi Germany and other Western nations. However, the largely elitist philosophy of dominance lost credibility with the fall and exposure of Hitler’s regime. Instead, it reemerged in the post-war world under code names like “population control” and in conjunction with environmental pretexts calling for restrictions on resource, energy & land use, as well as “family planning” and other softly-termed nudges towards outright restrictions like China’s one child policy.

Today’s neo-eugenics – where scientists are using techniques of artificial reproduction, genetic screening and genetic modification – is already ideologically married to a system that is increasingly using “smart” data to track and control user behavior, while encouraging or mandating smaller families and the the use of fewer resources, energy and carbon dioxide. Acclimating consumers – voluntarily through ubiquitous technologies like the iPhone – to biometrics as a way of life is one small fingerprint forward for mankind, and one giant leap forward for the unfolding ‘brave new world’ that threatens to swallow up what’s left of humanity.

[madfranks]

OP article is fake. Nationalreport is a satirical news site, like the onion.

[Ares]

OP article is fake. Nationalreport is a satirical news site, like the onion.

Sorry didn't realize it was satire. Getting more difficult to differentiate fact from fiction anymore.

[EE_]

If I ever take the mark, I'd probably get this case for it.

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[govcheetos]

OP article is fake. Nationalreport is a satirical news site, like the onion.

Faking and poking fun at it waters down the reality of whats really happening.

[Son-of-Liberty]

I agree. This article easily could have been true although I doubt the executive interviewed would be so frank.

Although Mark Zuckerburg did call his facebook users "stupid fucks"

This sort of disinfo gets people debating over whether something is true or not so they can't work together to find a solution.

[mick silver]

why would you not think it true ... their after all data . but but we all should know this by now . there no hiding under the rock no more