I don't like humans being used and treated as cattle. The reason it's useful to the state to track our biometrics is simple: a literal fingerprint attached to one's ideas, plans, lifestyle, and everything else means they have a deadlock on activities, should they decide to criminalize them. And with all the ridealong laws baked into legislation so it's tasty enough for signatures, this is a recipe for a complete slavestate. Add to that the chipping that's unfortunately increasingly en vogue, and we might as well all file into the squeeze chute tomorrow, and get popped. It's much more efficient (for now), but that's not sufficient to get my support. And as to "enrollment in biometric systems should be overt instead of covert", sure - but governments don't need to ask for permission to do any data collection, as evidenced by the continued dragnet collection of data by multiple global intelligence agencies. So good luck with that goal. Great article though - a thorough primer on the issues.