George Orwell would have a field day with this. Apparently the FBI is on the move to collect all the personal information it would need to turn America into a giant Where’s Waldo. Are you wearing your candy cane stripes?

A sizable $1 billion contract is about to be awarded to a lucky firm in order to create the massive database needed to compile such information. Palm prints, iris scans, even scars and tattoos are fair game. What’s the bottom line here? According to the bureau chief of biometric services, it’s to protect our borders and make the US of A safe again.

Personally, I just want to get through the airport without needing to strip down half naked.

Needless to say, privacy activists want to see this fall flat on its face. Probably because the thought of using this data to leverage a national ID card or some other semblance of “Big Brother” identification scares them. However, the contract will be put on the table whether they like it or not. I mean they’ve been collecting fingerprints for decades. They already have 55 million of those! It’s not like Orwell’s 1984 all over again, right? What’s the worse that could happen…

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