It also created new particularly appalling working conditions. As I have mentioned these drastic changes were, not surprisingly, met with resistance and revolt. Confinement was either a response to revolt or a means to prevent violent resistance to industrialization and its results. The history of confinement and other institutions or technologies of control is not a one-way linear process of increasing repression but a series of jumps, a conflict ridden complex of resistances and the state's responses to resistance. Computerized biometrics are now the most effective technologies of identification.
Finger printing is an older form of biometrics.
The Human Genome Project is trying to map out the genes of every citizen of Iceland and put this information into a database. This leads us towards a world in which, according to the system, the most valuable thing about the human body is the digital data which it provides. Biometrics are being used to restrict access to anything from a building to the nation-state. It is useful to know what specific technologies they are using against us. It is less effective when used on people with very dark brown eyes.