A New Pandemic-Spawned Super-Industry: The Touchless Office
Clear, the New York-based biometric company best know for shuffling you through airport security, is leading the new touchless industry, a burgeoning front in the age of around-the-clock commercialized surveillance.
When you hand over your iris scan or fingerprints to companies like Clear, you get whisked through stadium beer lines, and into stores and office elevators. It’s an unusual, once-in-a-lifetime, super-charging event for the surveillance firms, rebranding themselves as “touchless” while becoming an answer for anyone contemplating how to safely reopen.
But, as Dave Gershgorn writes at OneZero, there is danger in this shift: Your personal data is also then hackable by Iran, China, North Korea, Russia, or any number of private actors, well- or malignly intended.
