Yet more proof that current biometric measures are poor and hugely fallible:
FBI apology for Madrid bomb fingerprint fiasco

And possibly even more chilling: Benson versus Identix a number of real world examples of how reliance on identity systems based on the use of ID cards and biometrics can go seriously wrong and cause real suffering.

... and there is nobody around does it make a sound?

If great art is destroyed in a warehouse fire does it matter?

Surely great art is for seeing, touching, criticizing, and provoking emotions, not for caching away in a warehouse, hidden, unseen, unloved? Have I missed the point? Or was the very value of this art lost the minute that it disappeared from public view?