TSA Announces “biometrics vision for all commercial aviation travelers”
Activist Post Editor’s Note: As we’ve been covering for some time, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has a mandate that’s been 15 years…
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Wendy’s Sued For Violating Illinois Law Against Biometrics
By Aaron Kesel A class-action lawsuit was filed in Illinois against a fast food restaurant chain of the Wendy’s franchise. The suit accuses the company…
Businesses Will Use Facial Biometrics to Create Their Own Watch Lists
By MassPrivateI All across the country businesses are being encouraged to use facial recognition to identify everyone. Companies like DeepCam, have been been secretly working for three years,…
Social Media Now Being Used by Police and Intelligence Agencies to Collect Biometrics
By Nicholas West Amid the ongoing Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debacle over their general surveillance and misuse of users’ private data, there is an emerging trend that…
Mass Surveillance: Facebook Recognition A.I. Will Use Your Own Biometrics Against You
By Mac Slavo Sometime this year, Facebook plans to unveil a new facial recognition technology across the site which uses artificial intelligence to scan uploaded photos…
Company Seeks To Expand Mobile Biometrics With “Selfie Login” Technology
By Nicholas West Many times we come across tech press releases that are little more than grabs for funding within a climate of ripe pickings…
Australia Aims To Be The First Country To Process Air Travelers Via Biometrics Nationwide
By Nicholas West Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced a plan that could make Australia the world’s first country to implement a nationwide “contactless” system…
Cashless Biometrics And India’s Demonetization Experiment
By James Corbett Well, that didn’t take long. In the wake of India’s demonetization of the 500 and 1,000 rupee notes last November, I wrote…
Biometrics On Steroids — How the Police State is Going to Use Your Tattoos Against You
By Claire Bernish If you have tattoos, law enforcement might be trying to decipher their meaning — and use the information for identification purposes. But,…
The Extinction of Privacy and Personal Security Via Biometrics and the Cashless Society
By Graham Vanbergen In a survey of 1,000 UK shoppers by the retail personalisation company RichRelevance, respondents were asked to rate a suite of in-store…
FBI Quietly Ramps Up Biometrics Programs
By Jennifer Lynch In the last few years, FBI has been dramatically expanding its biometrics programs, whether by adding face recognition to its vast Next…
Police Using Biometrics on Americans Without Consent in Unaccountable Database
By Aaron Dykes Facial recognition and biometric databases have been a reality in technology for decades, and have been used overseas by the military to…
Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak Joins Board of Biometrics Firm
By Brandon Turbeville Former Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Ehud Barak has added another accomplishment to his bloody résumé now that he has accepted…
Hello Biometrics: Windows 10 to Add Facial Recognition, Iris Scans and Fingerprint Reader
Source Nicholas West Activist Post After several years of consumer complaints, Microsoft Windows 10 has been getting a lot of attention as of late for…