It's far too easy to simply have the government cut off your ability to buy food, pay rent, or even have a job.
Mark
In some UN refugee camps in the Middle East iris recognition software is used to identify people in the camps. Supposedly this is a good thing, since many people do not have any ID.
In reality it is used to control the people totally. In order to buy food you checkout using your biometric ID, debiting money from your monthly stipend. Access at the gates is done the same way.
Refugees register their biometric data with the UNHCR, and if they are eligible for aid are able to go to any ATM of UNHCR partner Cairo Amman bank, scanning their iris at the ATM to take out the money they need from specially-created accounts stocked with a monthly allowance. They can even buy food with an iris scan, using devoted machines at supermarkets both in refugee camps and cities.
“”a cashless society.””
Bills are serialized.
Bill Gate$ could put micro dots on each coin.