Black Woman Matched by Facial Recognition Alleges Police Misconduct in Lawsuit
By Chris Burt Another person in the United States is alleging a wrongful arrest based on a false match by facial recognition software used by…
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Mexican Presidential Candidate Marcelo Ebrard Announces “Angel Plan” Surveillance State Nightmare
By Derrick Broze Mexican Presidential candidate Marcelo Ebrard recently announced a security plan which calls for using several digital technologies with the potential to create…
From Covert to Overt: UK Government and Businesses Seek to Unleash Facial Recognition Technologies Across Urban Landscape
By Nick Corbishley The Home Office is encouraging police forces across the country to make use of live facial recognition technologies for routine law enforcement….
Facial Recognition Used to Streamline Roll Call in Brazil Schools
By Bianca Gonzalez The school roll call as most know it is being transformed by face biometrics. In Paraná, Brazil, over 200,000 students were processed…
Worldcoin To Share ID System With Governments, Corporations
Worldcoin’s ambition may be as big as that of OpenAI’s ChatGPT: namely, to disrupt the entire world and flip it into an outright Technocracy. It…
Bar for UK Crimes Prosecuted with Live Facial Recognition Could Get Much Lower
By Jim Nash Pledges by the UK government that its use of biometric data in law enforcement would be limited to, for example, the most…
Biometrics Integrations Look to the Future of Account Access, Money, and Digital ID
By Chris Burt Biometrics and digital identity document contracts continue to generate millions for companies like IBM, Augentic and IN Groupe in major news items…
PhD Student Uses Deepfake to Pass Popular Voice Authentication and Spoof Detection System
By Bianca Gonzalez University of Waterloo (UW) cybersecurity PhD student Andre Kassis published his findings after being granted access to an account protected with biometrics…
Historic Penalty Decision in BIPA Case Shows the Need to Take Biometric Privacy Seriously
By Jim Nash Biometrics in one U.S. jurisdiction is now officially a live electrical wire dancing on the ground, ready to shock the unwary, and…
Indian District Rolls Out Live Facial Recognition to Fight Crime Wave
By Masha Borak A district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is rolling out a crime-fighting search engine powered by live facial recognition called…
India Women Use Digital IDs to Apply for Basic Income Program
By Bianca Gonzalez The chief minister of India’s Tamil Nadu state has opened a camp in the Dharmapuri district to help 10 million eligible women…
“Worldcoin” Is Here: Just Get Your Eyes Scanned By “The Orb” And Your New “World ID” Will Be Issued To You
By Michael Snyder Have you had your eyes scanned by “The Orb” yet? All it takes is just one trip, and once your biometric data…
Japanese Police Test AI-Equipped Cameras To Protect VIPs
By Tyler Durden Japanese police will begin testing security cameras equipped with AI-based technology to protect high-profile public figures, Nikkei reports. AI-equipped cameras can have…
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Is A Precursor To Global Universal Basic Income
Worldcoin is being developed by two arch-Technocrats, Sam Altman and Alex Blania. Altman is an ardent supporter of Universal Basic Income (UBI), so it is…