Fingerprint iPhone, will NSA track and snoop?

[mistermack]

It looks to me it is reading it directly from the touch screen. It probably *could* do partial scans when ever you touch the screen.

Oh yeh, I forgot the touch screen. If it's scanning through that, you could just put the tape on your finger instead.
Or wear those surgical gloves if you were worried.
Or buy another model. I expect in a few years, it will just analyse your dna to verify who you are.

[Hermit]

I'm going to get fingerprinted on Thursday for my job anyway! Think I can preorder my new iPhone now?!?!

What?

What employer fingerprints you as part of induction?

Some employers require polygraph exams...

Only if you apply for the position of a polymath, though

...or if you want to work for a military intelligence agency. It scans you for concealed intelligence. If it detects any sign of it, you're out.

[Kristie]

I'm going to get fingerprinted on Thursday for my job anyway! Think I can preorder my new iPhone now?!?!

What?

What employer fingerprints you as part of induction?

I work at a daycare. I have to go to the police station to get it done.

We have something similar, but without the finger prints. Here, in any job where you are in contact with kids, you have to have a police check...

They did a criminal background check on me before I started. We have to get fingerprinted every two years.

[Ian]

I'm going to get fingerprinted on Thursday for my job anyway! Think I can preorder my new iPhone now?!?!

What?

What employer fingerprints you as part of induction?

Some employers require polygraph exams...

Only if you apply for the position of a polymath, though

...or if you want to work for a military intelligence agency. It scans you for concealed intelligence. If it detects any sign of it, you're out.

[mistermack]

It scans you for concealed intelligence. If it detects any sign of it, you're out.

It's not going to find any kind of intelligence on your side of the pond.
Maybe that's why they don't work.

[Thinking Aloud]

It scans you for concealed intelligence. If it detects any sign of it, you're out.

It's not going to find any kind of intelligence on your side of the pond.
Maybe that's why they don't work.

I thought "The Pond" was usually the Atlantic.

[mistermack]

It scans you for concealed intelligence. If it detects any sign of it, you're out.

It's not going to find any kind of intelligence on your side of the pond.
Maybe that's why they don't work.

I thought "The Pond" was usually the Atlantic.

Oh right. I assumed we were talking about the US. I didn't know anybody else used polygraphs.

[Thinking Aloud]

It scans you for concealed intelligence. If it detects any sign of it, you're out.

It's not going to find any kind of intelligence on your side of the pond.
Maybe that's why they don't work.

I thought "The Pond" was usually the Atlantic.

Oh right. I assumed we were talking about the US. I didn't know anybody else used polygraphs.

Hermit's in Australia, so 'his' side of the pond is probably the Falklands.

[mistermack]

Hermit's in Australia, so 'his' side of the pond is probably the Falklands.

Well, that's not his fault, so I won't hold it against him. I should have seen that he was talking about Ian's post, not his own back yard.
Or maybe they do use that stuff in Australia? It wouldn't surprise me.

It's a bit on the borderline between woo and science. I didn't think official bodies were using it any more, as it's been beaten so many times, and also gives false positives.
Waste of space, I think.