India Moving Ahead With Universal Biometric ID Program Despite Growing Concern
image source Brandon Turbeville Activist Post Only three months ago, I wrote an article entitled “Cashless Society: India Implements First Biometric ID Program for all…
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Mobile Scanner to be Added to Biometric Data Arsenal
Coming soon from a war zone to your home town credit: Cross Match Technologies Activist Post As part of the coordinated biometric border control program, including Secure…
U.S. officials continue to shift focus from al Qaeda to ‘home-grown extremists’
Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post Last year I broke down a report from the Homeland Security Policy Institute which not only lent support for increasingly…
Innovations for paraplegics: mind-controlled robots and wheelchairs, electric skin and more
Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post While some researchers continue to focus on creating new technologies with some disturbing applications like mobile phone microchips capable of…
Defense Department to further militarize U.S. law enforcement with hundreds of military robots
(Image credit: U.S. Navy) Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post Last year I reported on the Pentagon’s 1033 Program, wherein local law enforcement agencies can obtain…
Thirteen Ways Government Tracks Us
Bill Quigley Activist Post Privacy is eroding fast as technology offers government increasing ways to track and spy on citizens. The Washington Post reported there…
French Constitutional Court Bans Law Enforcement Use of National Biometric ID Database
Central biometric database unconstitutional in France – Wiki illustration Katitza Rodriguez & Maira Sutton EFF Last week, the Conseil Constitutionnel, the highest authority on the…
Patent awarded for “behavioral recognition” surveillance software system
Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post The American surveillance state is becoming increasingly advanced, expansive and capable of processing huge amounts of data at blinding speeds….
New Big Brother facial recognition system scans 36 million faces per second
Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post A new system has emerged to process surveillance footage for facial recognition, and it makes much of the previous technology…
Forced Warrantless DNA Collection Violates Fourth Amendment
Warrantless Biometrics Wiki illustration Hanni Fakhoury EFF Over the last few years, we’ve been battling laws that require a person arrested to give a DNA…
OWS activists’ bail affected by refusing iris scans after brutal crackdown
image credit: Chad Miller/Flickr Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post I have spent a great deal of time covering biometrics and how this information is…
A Perimeter Approach to Security and the Transformation of the U.S.-Canada Border
Dana Gabriel, Contributing Writer Activist Post Through a series of bilateral meetings, U.S. and Canadian officials are busy working out the details of the perimeter…
Study shows that computers might be able to spot liars better than human experts
Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post Similar to the so-called “threat assessment” technology being researched, funded and field tested by the United States Department of…
New smartphone app ushers in the digital age of citizen spying
imge: Apple App Store Madison Ruppert, Contributing Writer Activist Post The West Virginia Department of Homeland Security released an app for mobile phones they have…