Category: Biometrics

• Bio-Metric Rent

  A theory that by 2027 access to housing and smart-home systems will increasingly require biometric submission—first faces, palms, veins, fingerprints, and eventually blood or DNA—turning biological identity into a de facto form of payment or tenancy qualification. In this narrative, the home ceases to be unlocked by keys or codes and instead demands the body itself as access credential.

• The Selfie (2013) as DNA Capture

  The Selfie (2013) as DNA Capture theory claimed that the explosive rise of selfie culture was not only about narcissism, smartphones, or social media identity, but about training people to provide highly useful biometric and musculature data. In its most specific form, the theory held that exaggerated poses such as duck face helped map the fine facial structures associated with speech and vocal production.

• The FaceApp (2019) Russian Aging

  The FaceApp (2019) Russian Aging theory claimed that the app’s viral aging filter was not merely a novelty effect or privacy-risk app, but part of a Russian intelligence-adjacent project to assemble a predictive aging biometric database. In this framework, the “old age” transformation was interpreted as a mass voluntary facial-capture event that could train systems to estimate how faces would age, change, and remain identifiable over time.

• The "Fingerprint" Data-Bank

  This theory claimed that fingerprinting was never mainly about solving crime and instead existed to build a universal registry through which the state could count, sort, tax, conscript, and spiritually claim human beings. The phrase "taxing the soul" belongs to the folkloric and religious edge of this fear, but the underlying suspicion grew from a real expansion of fingerprinting beyond individual criminal cases into systematic identification, records, and administrative control. In this form, the fingerprint becomes not evidence but ownership.