Come Over Agamben, Your Retina Has Already Been Scanned

I heard a CIA spokesperson on the radio a couple of weeks ago. For some reason the subject of retinal scans came up.

Agamben refuses to come to the States because he's protesting the “biometric” information gathering that many states are now doing. (As if fingerprints weren't already a case of that, but I'll leave that aside for a moment.)

In particular, Agamben has a beef with having his retinae scanned. Now this CIA spokesperson might have been doing psy-ops, but this is what she said:

“Oh, we can do that with a picture of you on Google Images. As long as it's over 150dpi.

So let me get this straight. The CIA can take a 150dpi (low resolution and then some) image of your face from Google and scan your retinae?

In that case, Agamben, there is no need to worry: you have already been scanned. So you might as well come over here!