The FBI is working on a tattoo tracking system that has privacy groups up in arms

TechCrunch ^ | 06.05.2016 | Brian Heater

[ameribbean expat]

According to research unearthed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the FBI has teamed with government scientists to work on a technology system designed to track tattoos.

[dljordan]

Maybe we could come up with an a**hole tracking system for government employees?

[Snickering Hound]

That's a lot of hard drives.

[Daffynition]

LOL

A list of registered democrats from your local ROV’s office, is a good place to start.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Soon it will be the person WITHOUT tattoos that will be the abnormality. I can live with that.

[leaning conservative]

; )

[Cats Pajamas]

That would be me. I vow never to get one willingly. No tramp stamps for me.

[WKUHilltopper]

They already have this...just priming the pump to require it.

[Steven Tyler]

Folks should how they are tracked via their smartphone, fitbit, etc

[I want the USA back]

Impossible to track tattoos. The owner can get a new one any time. Do they propose registering each new ‘too? Does the artist have to send a pic of the design to the Feds? GIF or JPG?

[PLMerite]

Sounds like a good idea to me. Allow law enforcement to keep the gang bangers sorted out.

[discostu]

Not impossible at all. It’s just an extension of facial recognition software. They don’t need to register them, just they look good in any kind of ID/ line up photo so they can land in the database and be used when they’re checking through surveillance footage.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I know Godwin's law will be invoked on me, but there is precedence for this:

[Defiant]

It is not a good analogy. The government isn't stamping people with identifying numbers. The thugs and criminals are stamping themselves with unique identifying characteristics, like a thumbprint that can be spied from a block away. Keeping a database of these when they are collected from people who have been convicted of a crime is just smart law enforcement.

I would oppose it if they are getting information about people from tattoo artists before anyone has committed a crime, or if they are stripping people down and photographing their tattoos when they are charged with a crime, but not convicted. If that is going on, it is an invasion of privacy, but still not similar to Hitler giving numbers to Jews. Godwin was right again.

[Grampa Dave]

The SS blood group tattoo was applied, in theory, to all Waffen-SS members, except members of the British Free Corps.

It was a small black ink tattoo located on the underside of the left arm, usually near the armpit. It generally measured around 7 mm (0.28 inches) long, and was placed roughly 20 cm (8 inches) above the elbow. The tattoo consisted of the soldier’s blood type letter, either A, B, AB or O.

The discovery of the Rh factor had been made in 1937, but was not fully understood during World War II, so was not implemented. In the early part of the war tattoos were printed in Fraktur, while later on they were printed in Latin-style.

The purpose of the tattoo was to identify a soldier’s blood type in case a blood transfusion was needed while unconscious, or his Erkennungsmarke (dog tag) or Soldbuch (pay book) were missing. The tattoo was generally applied by the unit’s Sanitäter (medic) in basic training, but could have been applied by anyone assigned to do it at any time during his term of service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_blood_group_tattoo

[fella]

The tattoo tracking is to help the progressives to pick out their lamp shades and book covers.