The Multi-national Push to Ban Facial Recognition in Public Spaces
By Bianca Gonzalez As businesses and governments in the U.S. and across the globe implement facial recognition surveillance in public spaces, privacy advocates are pushing…
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Mumbai Railways Installing Thousands of Facial Recognition Cameras
By Masha Borak Indian Railways is planning to install thousands of CCTV cameras equipped with facial recognition across greater Mumbai in an effort to boost…
Biometrics and Digital Credentials Gain Ground in Airports and National ID
By Chris Burt Biometrics are playing their part in the pursuit of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, an NEC representative explains in one of Biometric…
INTERPOL Plans Big Data and Biometrics Platform to Give Police Predictive Analytics
By Chris Burt INTERPOL is building a platform for processing massive amounts of data, including biometrics, to give police around the world predictive analytics, according…
Vietnam to Require Biometric Authentication for Some Online Money Transfers to Cut Fraud
By Ayang Macdonald Activist Post Editor’s Note: As you’ll read, the “authentication for some” will become “authentication for all.” The increasing requirements to use biometrics…
Flawed Investigations, Camera Limitations Plague Mexico City’s Surveillance System
By Bianca Gonzalez In the last decade, Mexico City has installed the largest video surveillance system in the Americas, altering the way criminal investigations are…
Singapore, Dubai, Aruba Airports Embrace Biometrics for Passport-free Traveler Clearance
By Joel R. McConvey Activist Post Editor’s Note — All of the digital systems that have been rolled out in the name of convenience have…
$400M Mobilized to Support Digital Public Infrastructure Development in 100 Countries
By Ayang Macdonald Activist Post Editor’s Note: As we continue to report, digital ID backed by biometrics is rolling out across the globe at warp…
Biometrics Replacing IDs in Airports, Backing Them for Government Services
By Chris Burt Face biometrics continue to underpin advances speeding travelers through airports, with Idemia participating in a digital ID pilot for travel and tipping…
Digital Travel Credentials Coming to Canada-Netherlands Pilot, Future US Scanners
Activist Post Editor’s Note: If it’s really true “that three-quarters of travelers prefer to use face biometrics over travel documents, and users of digital ID…
G20 Recommends Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Policy to Drive Financial Inclusion
By Ayang Macdonald Activist Post Editor’s Note: Of course they will outline all of the benefits, while completely dismissing any concerns around financial privacy, censorship,…
Lawyer Warns U.S. Spy Agencies’ “Smart” Clothing “will gather biometric data from those nearby, as well as capture all audio and visual data”
By B.N. Frank It’s hard to keep track of all the ways Americans are being spied on by private businesses and government entities while simultaneously…
Montana Passes Genetic Information Privacy Act, Continues to Lead US in Privacy Protection
By Bianca Gonzalez Montana has passed the Genetic Information Privacy Act with a number of broad definitions that provides wide protections for state residents, according…
U.S. Spy Agencies to Launch “Smart Clothing” Under Guise of “Better Health Monitoring”
By Suzanne Budick, Ph.D. (CHD) The U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) recently launched an effort to make computerized clothing a reality — a move critics say could…