Apparently the tickets for this summer’s Olympics will contain a microchip with the ticket holder’s photograph, passport details, addresses, e-mail, and telephone numbers. The idea is to keep troublemakers and protestors out of the stands.

Of course this raises issues about privacy and just what will be done with all that information, and its questionable whether those measures will have any effect on that goal.

A great example of security theatre – somehow not surprising when it goes along with the theatrics of the opening and closing ceremonies.

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