Technology and Communication

It also could be potentially used for imposing residency and movement restrictions that declare certain areas off limits to particular individuals ' who have conditional paroles , barring notices or stay away s . However , it gives the possibility of the misuse of Iris Scan databases for segregating ethnic minorities or other dissident groups

A technology like Live Scan or Iris Scan can be an easy tool for governments and big corporations to breach the privacy of innocent individuals and authoritarian regimes could well use them for surveillance of the entire population . Also , such

databases and techniques could be hacked by criminal elements and used for terrorizing the whole world . Murphy (2005 ) has pointed out that government strategies virtual contol could be more dangerous than physical control as still the courts unduly focus on the physical world as the relevant metric against which all restraints are judged . As a result technologies of restraint are imposed without necessary procedural safeguards . The unaccountability of the possible uses of databases by the governments too is a matter of alarming concern . In other words , a technological development such as Iris Scan enables the government and security agencies to monitor the entire population amounting to imprison people in a prison without walls

In comparison , it could be argued that Iris Scan could be considered as the best available database could be used fro criminal justice . It does not involve any physical touch for the obtaining of date and it could be taken without the consent of a person . Moreover , Iris Scan could be well used to obtain the sample even from an unwilling person without using force

III . Conclusion

The technological advancements have helped the conduct of criminal justice faster , accurate and less procedurally complex . More than punitive measures , database could be used also for affirmative actions such...