Decoding the California DMV’s Mobile Driver’s License
By Alexis Hancock The State of California is currently rolling out a “mobile driver’s license” (mDL), a form of digital identification that raises significant privacy…
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Toddlers to Get Digital ID in Philippines, Caymans
By Masha Borak The Philippines is allowing children four years of age and younger to sign up for the country’s digital ID, the Philippine Identification…
How to Figure Out What Your Car Knows About You (and Opt Out of Sharing When You Can)
By Thorin Klosowski Cars collect a lot of our personal data, and car companies disclose a lot of that data to third parties. It’s often…
RecFaces Live Facial Recognition Used for Security During 2024 Brazilian Carnival
By Bianca Gonzalez Cameras using Id-Guard from RecFaces, a Dubai-based facial recognition software developer, were used to secure Brazil Carnival 2024, according to a company…
Automakers Are Feeding Your Trip Data To Insurance Companies
If data exists anywhere, Technocrats will lay claim to it. It is their right, not yours. It is their lifeblood, their existence, their reason for…
Emotion-tracking AI on the job: Workers fear being watched – and misunderstood
By The Conversation Emotion artificial intelligence uses biological signals such as vocal tone, facial expressions and data from wearable devices as well as text and…
Biometrics Entering Wider Use at Work and at Play
By Chris Burt Government and business biometrics deployments to make employee time and attendance tracking more reliable lead a series of items about major market…
Biometric Border Surveillance: The ‘Solution’ to a Manufactured Crisis
By TheFreedomArticles NWO scheme busted: to overwhelm US cities with a massive influx of illegal immigrants, give them free accommodation and welfare, then propose a…
Pakistan Executes AI-powered Criminal Identification System
Activist Post Editor’s Note: The author is clearly supportive of this technology, perhaps not knowing the multitude of complications and errors that have occurred in…
Unregulated, Exploitative, and on the Rise: Vera Institute’s Report on Electronic Monitoring
By Hannah Zhao, José Martinez, and Will Greenberg Incarceration rates in the United States have long been among the highest in the world, and in…
Scientists on Quest to Decode the Human Brain – And Read People’s Minds
By The Conversation The brain is the most complicated object in the universe. Can researchers solve its greatest mysteries? In the middle of 2023, a…
New Zealand Grocery Stores Adding Facial Recognition, Police Want Open Discussion
By Masha Borak Facial recognition is entering New Zealand’s grocery stores and the rapid expansion of the technology has been filling the country’s newspaper headlines….
Are The Feds Buying Gun Data On Private Citizens Without A Warrant?
Submitted by Gun Owners of America The Biden Administration has shown time and time again how they weaponize federal law enforcement agencies against gun owners….
Researchers Introduce Wireless “Smart” Earrings, to Continuously Monitor Wearers’ Earlobe Temperature; Investigate Other Applications
By B.N. Frank Decades of research have revealed that exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) from activity trackers and other wearables as well as other wireless…