Stamping out anonymity

The FBI's getting into biometrics in a big way. Using technology tested in Iraq, they'll be creating dossiers on us, storing and comparing. DNA from birth is only a matter of time.

And, get this, if your employer - or maybe even just a prospective employer - wants a background check on you, it can ask the FBI to hang onto your fingerprints, your palm print, your facial geometry, and your iris scan so that the FBI can notify your boss if you ever run into a little trouble.

The only privacy left is inside your head, and maybe that's enough. Yeah, sure.