UK Police stop people for covering their faces from facial recognition camera then fine man £90 after he protested
Metropolitan Police had said people declining to be scanned would 'not necessarily be viewed as suspicious'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recognition-cameras-technology-london-trial-met-police-face-cover-man-fined-a8756936.html
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Metropolitan Police had said people declining to be scanned would 'not necessarily be viewed as suspicious'
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/facial-recognition-cameras-technology-london-trial-met-police-face-cover-man-fined-a8756936.html
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Man fined £90 after covering face during facial recognition trial in London
Metropolitan Police had said people declining to be scanned would 'not necessarily be viewed as suspicious'
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The Pentagon has a laser that can identify people from a distance—by their heartbeat
The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes.
Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart. Crucially, it can be done from a distance.
It’s that last point that has intrigued US Special Forces. Other long-range biometric techniques include gait analysis, which identifies someone by the way he or she walks. This method was supposedly used to identify an infamous ISIS terrorist before a drone strike. But gaits, like faces, are not necessarily distinctive. An individual’s cardiac signature is unique, though, and unlike faces or gait, it remains constant and cannot be altered or disguised.
Long-range detection
A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seeing their face: instead it detects their unique cardiac signature with an infrared laser. While it works at 200 meters (219 yards), longer distances could be possible with a better laser. “I don’t want to say you could do it from space,” says Steward Remaly, of the Pentagon’s Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office, “but longer ranges should be possible.”
Contact infrared sensors are often used to automatically record a patient’s pulse. They work by detecting the changes in reflection of infrared light caused by blood flow. By contrast, the new device, called Jetson, uses a technique known as laser vibrometry to detect the surface movement caused by the heartbeat. This works though typical clothing like a shirt and a jacket (though not thicker clothing such as a winter coat).
The most common way of carrying out remote biometric identification is by face recognition. But this needs good, frontal view of the face, which can be hard to obtain, especially from a drone. Face recognition may also be confused by beards, sunglasses, or headscarves.
Cardiac signatures are already used for security identification. The Canadian company Nymi has developed a wrist-worn pulse sensor as an alternative to fingerprint identification. The technology has been trialed by the Halifax building society in the UK.
More info:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/
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The Jetson prototype can pick up on a unique cardiac signature from 200 meters away, even through clothes.
Everyone’s heart is different. Like the iris or fingerprint, our unique cardiac signature can be used as a way to tell us apart. Crucially, it can be done from a distance.
It’s that last point that has intrigued US Special Forces. Other long-range biometric techniques include gait analysis, which identifies someone by the way he or she walks. This method was supposedly used to identify an infamous ISIS terrorist before a drone strike. But gaits, like faces, are not necessarily distinctive. An individual’s cardiac signature is unique, though, and unlike faces or gait, it remains constant and cannot be altered or disguised.
Long-range detection
A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special Forces requested it, can identify people without seeing their face: instead it detects their unique cardiac signature with an infrared laser. While it works at 200 meters (219 yards), longer distances could be possible with a better laser. “I don’t want to say you could do it from space,” says Steward Remaly, of the Pentagon’s Combatting Terrorism Technical Support Office, “but longer ranges should be possible.”
Contact infrared sensors are often used to automatically record a patient’s pulse. They work by detecting the changes in reflection of infrared light caused by blood flow. By contrast, the new device, called Jetson, uses a technique known as laser vibrometry to detect the surface movement caused by the heartbeat. This works though typical clothing like a shirt and a jacket (though not thicker clothing such as a winter coat).
The most common way of carrying out remote biometric identification is by face recognition. But this needs good, frontal view of the face, which can be hard to obtain, especially from a drone. Face recognition may also be confused by beards, sunglasses, or headscarves.
Cardiac signatures are already used for security identification. The Canadian company Nymi has developed a wrist-worn pulse sensor as an alternative to fingerprint identification. The technology has been trialed by the Halifax building society in the UK.
More info:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613891/the-pentagon-has-a-laser-that-can-identify-people-from-a-distanceby-their-heartbeat/
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I Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport—It Wasn't Easy
The announcement came as we began to board. Last month, I was at Detroit’s Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff member informed passengers that the boarding process would use facial recognition instead of passport scanners.
As a privacy-conscious person, I was uncomfortable boarding this way. I also knew I could opt out. Presumably, most of my fellow fliers did not: I didn't hear a single announcement alerting passengers how to avoid the face scanners.
To figure out how to do so, I had to leave the boarding line, speak with a Delta representative at their information desk, get back in line, then request a passport scan when it was my turn to board. Federal agencies and airlines claim that facial recognition is an opt-out system, but my recent experience suggests they are incentivizing travelers to have their faces scanned—and disincentivizing them to sidestep the tech—by not clearly communicating alternative options. Last year, a Delta customer service representative reported that only 2 percent of customers opt out of facial-recognition. It's easy to see why.
As I watched traveler after traveler stand in front of a facial scanner before boarding our flight, I had an eerie vision of a new privacy-invasive status quo. With our faces becoming yet another form of data to be collected, stored, and used, it seems we’re sleepwalking toward a hyper-surveilled environment, mollified by assurances that the process is undertaken in the name of security and convenience. I began to wonder: Will we only wake up once we no longer have the choice to opt out?
Until we have evidence that facial recognition is accurate and reliable—as opposed to simply convenient—travelers should avoid the technology where they can.
The facial recognition plan in US airports is built around the Customs and Border Protection Biometric Exit Program, which utilizes face-scanning technology to verify a traveler’s identity. CBP partners with airlines—including Delta, JetBlue, American Airlines, and others—to photograph each traveler while boarding. That image gets compared to one stored in a cloud-based photo-matching service populated with photos from visas, passports, or related immigration applications. The Biometric Exit Program is used in at least 17 airports, and a recently-released Department of Homeland Security report states that CBP anticipates having the ability to scan the faces of 97 percent of commercial air passengers departing the United States by 2023.
Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/opt-out-of-facial-recognition-at-the-airport/
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The announcement came as we began to board. Last month, I was at Detroit’s Metro Airport for a connecting flight to Southeast Asia. I listened as a Delta Air Lines staff member informed passengers that the boarding process would use facial recognition instead of passport scanners.
As a privacy-conscious person, I was uncomfortable boarding this way. I also knew I could opt out. Presumably, most of my fellow fliers did not: I didn't hear a single announcement alerting passengers how to avoid the face scanners.
To figure out how to do so, I had to leave the boarding line, speak with a Delta representative at their information desk, get back in line, then request a passport scan when it was my turn to board. Federal agencies and airlines claim that facial recognition is an opt-out system, but my recent experience suggests they are incentivizing travelers to have their faces scanned—and disincentivizing them to sidestep the tech—by not clearly communicating alternative options. Last year, a Delta customer service representative reported that only 2 percent of customers opt out of facial-recognition. It's easy to see why.
As I watched traveler after traveler stand in front of a facial scanner before boarding our flight, I had an eerie vision of a new privacy-invasive status quo. With our faces becoming yet another form of data to be collected, stored, and used, it seems we’re sleepwalking toward a hyper-surveilled environment, mollified by assurances that the process is undertaken in the name of security and convenience. I began to wonder: Will we only wake up once we no longer have the choice to opt out?
Until we have evidence that facial recognition is accurate and reliable—as opposed to simply convenient—travelers should avoid the technology where they can.
The facial recognition plan in US airports is built around the Customs and Border Protection Biometric Exit Program, which utilizes face-scanning technology to verify a traveler’s identity. CBP partners with airlines—including Delta, JetBlue, American Airlines, and others—to photograph each traveler while boarding. That image gets compared to one stored in a cloud-based photo-matching service populated with photos from visas, passports, or related immigration applications. The Biometric Exit Program is used in at least 17 airports, and a recently-released Department of Homeland Security report states that CBP anticipates having the ability to scan the faces of 97 percent of commercial air passengers departing the United States by 2023.
Read more:
https://www.wired.com/story/opt-out-of-facial-recognition-at-the-airport/
#biometric #privacy #facescanning #airport #surveillance #why
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Google Chrome is working on biometric authentication for payment autofill
No more digging through your wallet to find that CVC number for authentication
A few months ago, we spotted Chrome working on Windows Hello integration for payment autofill authentication, sparing you from digging out your physical card to enter your CVC over and over. We've now found out that Windows isn't the only place where Google wants to make access to payment cards easier and more tightly integrated. The company is also working on system-wide authentication for Android (and possibly Chrome OS, Linux, and macOS). Sadly, the feature isn't fully live on any iteration of Chrome for Android yet.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/06/google-chrome-is-working-on-biometric-authentication-for-payment-autofill/
#google #chrome.#biometric #privacy
No more digging through your wallet to find that CVC number for authentication
A few months ago, we spotted Chrome working on Windows Hello integration for payment autofill authentication, sparing you from digging out your physical card to enter your CVC over and over. We've now found out that Windows isn't the only place where Google wants to make access to payment cards easier and more tightly integrated. The company is also working on system-wide authentication for Android (and possibly Chrome OS, Linux, and macOS). Sadly, the feature isn't fully live on any iteration of Chrome for Android yet.
https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/07/06/google-chrome-is-working-on-biometric-authentication-for-payment-autofill/
#google #chrome.#biometric #privacy
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Google Chrome is working on biometric authentication for payment autofill
No more digging through your wallet to find that CVC number for authentication
Romanian tech firms develop biometric technology to prevent students from cheating in online exams
Tremend, one of the most dynamic Romanian tech companies, has launched a platform that allows examination centers, assessment providers, and universities to supervise students taking remote exams and prevent cheating. The solution, called observed, leverages AI-enabled typing biometrics, a proprietary technology of Romanian startup TypingDNA, a behavioral-biometrics SaaS company offering innovative typing-based authentication.
The global market of proctoring and online exams has skyrocketed in recent months, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the education institutions to close their doors for students.
https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-tremend-typingdna-biometric-technology-online-exam
#romania #biometric #exam
Tremend, one of the most dynamic Romanian tech companies, has launched a platform that allows examination centers, assessment providers, and universities to supervise students taking remote exams and prevent cheating. The solution, called observed, leverages AI-enabled typing biometrics, a proprietary technology of Romanian startup TypingDNA, a behavioral-biometrics SaaS company offering innovative typing-based authentication.
The global market of proctoring and online exams has skyrocketed in recent months, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the education institutions to close their doors for students.
https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-tremend-typingdna-biometric-technology-online-exam
#romania #biometric #exam
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Your personal data is going on a journey
The EU is constructing a number of new systems for the screening, monitoring and tracking of international travellers that places them under an increasing veil of suspicion. Justified primarily in the name of ensuring security, all non-EU citizens attempting to visit the Schengen area will have their biometric and biographic data registered in large centralised databases, where it will be cross-referenced against a host of other systems and used to feed new databases, profiling tools and watchlists...(...)
👀 👉🏼 Your personal data is going on a journey
https://www.statewatch.org/automated-suspicion-the-eu-s-new-travel-surveillance-initiatives/conclusions-your-personal-data-is-going-on-a-journey/
#ourdata #BigData #eu #screening #monitoring #tracking #biometric #biographic #profiling #watchlist #surveillance #thinkabout
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The EU is constructing a number of new systems for the screening, monitoring and tracking of international travellers that places them under an increasing veil of suspicion. Justified primarily in the name of ensuring security, all non-EU citizens attempting to visit the Schengen area will have their biometric and biographic data registered in large centralised databases, where it will be cross-referenced against a host of other systems and used to feed new databases, profiling tools and watchlists...(...)
👀 👉🏼 Your personal data is going on a journey
https://www.statewatch.org/automated-suspicion-the-eu-s-new-travel-surveillance-initiatives/conclusions-your-personal-data-is-going-on-a-journey/
#ourdata #BigData #eu #screening #monitoring #tracking #biometric #biographic #profiling #watchlist #surveillance #thinkabout
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Europol Regulation - Plans for a "European FBI"
The EU Police Agency should be allowed to investigate and search for cross-border crimes. A proposal to this effect from the Commission is expected in December, and the German Council Presidency wants to support the initiative with a conference in Berlin. Civil rights groups warn about a " data washing machine".
Some of these demands will be reflected in the recast of the four year old Europol regulation that will be published by the European Commission on 6th December. The German Interior Ministry plans to organise a conference on the "future of Europol" on 21st and 22nd October in Berlin and the annual meeting of European police chiefs on 1st and 2nd October in The Hague will also look into the new regulation.
The main pillars of the proposal are already known. In a publication for a preliminary impact assessment, the Commission writes that Europol is to be strengthened to "deal with emerging threats". The scope of criminal offences for which Europol is competent will therefore be extended. The agency would then be able to conduct its own searches in the Schengen Information System (SIS II) and use the Prüm framework for Europe-wide searches of biometric data.
👀 👉🏼 https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12387-Strengthening-of-Europol-s-mandate
👀 👉🏼 https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-14745-2019-INIT/de/pdf
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://netzpolitik.org/2020/europol-verordnung-plaene-fuer-ein-europaeisches-fbi/
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The EU Police Agency should be allowed to investigate and search for cross-border crimes. A proposal to this effect from the Commission is expected in December, and the German Council Presidency wants to support the initiative with a conference in Berlin. Civil rights groups warn about a " data washing machine".
Some of these demands will be reflected in the recast of the four year old Europol regulation that will be published by the European Commission on 6th December. The German Interior Ministry plans to organise a conference on the "future of Europol" on 21st and 22nd October in Berlin and the annual meeting of European police chiefs on 1st and 2nd October in The Hague will also look into the new regulation.
The main pillars of the proposal are already known. In a publication for a preliminary impact assessment, the Commission writes that Europol is to be strengthened to "deal with emerging threats". The scope of criminal offences for which Europol is competent will therefore be extended. The agency would then be able to conduct its own searches in the Schengen Information System (SIS II) and use the Prüm framework for Europe-wide searches of biometric data.
👀 👉🏼 https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/12387-Strengthening-of-Europol-s-mandate
👀 👉🏼 https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-14745-2019-INIT/de/pdf
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Spain’s largest bus terminal deployed live face recognition four years ago, but few noticed
Madrid South Station’s face recognition system automatically matches every visitor’s face against a database of suspects, and shares information with the Spanish police.
Around 20 million travellers transited last year through Madrid’s South bus terminal, known as Méndez Álvaro Station to locals. Those 20 million persons had their face scanned as they entered the station. They were tracked as they walked to the bays where their bus was parked, before leaving the Spanish capital. Unless the station’s face detection system produced an alert and they were arrested.
The terminal is a key transport exchange not only for Madrid, but for the whole country. It connects with subway stations and with Renfe, the national train service. Until 2010, the terminal did not have a security unit that was specifically tasked with coordinating the response to petty crime.
Running since 2016
The station is one of the few public buildings in Spain that deployed a live face recognition system. Miguel Angel Gallego, the station’s chief of security between 2010 and 2019, decided to deploy face recognition after he was contacted by a Spanish start up working with this type of software in 2016.
Mr Gallego faced an uphill battle. The Spanish police, who were not used to face recognition at the time, were not enthusiastic, and neither was Avanza ADO, the company that has been running the bus terminal since 2003. But he remained undeterred. The technology has been running for four years, without much scrutiny from privacy organizations or from the state.
👀 👉🏼 https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/spain-mendez-alvaro-face-recognition/
👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://netzpolitik.org/2020/gesichtserkennung-in-madrid-videokameras-ueberwachen-unbemerkt-millionen-fahrgaeste/
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Madrid South Station’s face recognition system automatically matches every visitor’s face against a database of suspects, and shares information with the Spanish police.
Around 20 million travellers transited last year through Madrid’s South bus terminal, known as Méndez Álvaro Station to locals. Those 20 million persons had their face scanned as they entered the station. They were tracked as they walked to the bays where their bus was parked, before leaving the Spanish capital. Unless the station’s face detection system produced an alert and they were arrested.
The terminal is a key transport exchange not only for Madrid, but for the whole country. It connects with subway stations and with Renfe, the national train service. Until 2010, the terminal did not have a security unit that was specifically tasked with coordinating the response to petty crime.
Running since 2016
The station is one of the few public buildings in Spain that deployed a live face recognition system. Miguel Angel Gallego, the station’s chief of security between 2010 and 2019, decided to deploy face recognition after he was contacted by a Spanish start up working with this type of software in 2016.
Mr Gallego faced an uphill battle. The Spanish police, who were not used to face recognition at the time, were not enthusiastic, and neither was Avanza ADO, the company that has been running the bus terminal since 2003. But he remained undeterred. The technology has been running for four years, without much scrutiny from privacy organizations or from the state.
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👀 👉🏼 🇩🇪 https://netzpolitik.org/2020/gesichtserkennung-in-madrid-videokameras-ueberwachen-unbemerkt-millionen-fahrgaeste/
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Madrid South Station’s face recognition system automatically matches every visitor’s face against a database of suspects, and shares information with the Spanish police.
Sci-fi surveillance: Europe's secretive push into biometric technology
EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. But who decides how far we need to submit to artificial intelligence?
Patrick Breyer didn’t expect to have to take the European commission to court. The softly spoken German MEP was startled when in July 2019 he read about a new technology to detect from facial “micro-expressions” when somebody is lying while answering questions.
Even more startling was that the EU was funding research into this virtual mindreader through a project called iBorderCtrl, for potential use in policing Europe’s borders. In the article that Breyer read, a reporter described taking a test on the border between Serbia and Hungary. She told the truth, but the AI border guard said she had lied.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/10/sci-fi-surveillance-europes-secretive-push-into-biometric-technology
#Europe #EU #biometric #AI #surveillance
EU science funding is being spent on developing new tools for policing and security. But who decides how far we need to submit to artificial intelligence?
Patrick Breyer didn’t expect to have to take the European commission to court. The softly spoken German MEP was startled when in July 2019 he read about a new technology to detect from facial “micro-expressions” when somebody is lying while answering questions.
Even more startling was that the EU was funding research into this virtual mindreader through a project called iBorderCtrl, for potential use in policing Europe’s borders. In the article that Breyer read, a reporter described taking a test on the border between Serbia and Hungary. She told the truth, but the AI border guard said she had lied.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/10/sci-fi-surveillance-europes-secretive-push-into-biometric-technology
#Europe #EU #biometric #AI #surveillance
At Dubai airport, travelers’ eyes become their passports
Dubai’s airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, can already feel surreal, with its cavernous duty-free stores, artificial palm trees, gleaming terminals, water cascades and near-Arctic levels of air conditioning.
Now, the key east-west transit hub is rolling out another addition from the realm of science fiction — an iris-scanner that verifies one’s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when entering or leaving the country.
It’s the latest artificial intelligence program the United Arab Emirates has launched amid the surging coronavirus pandemic, contact-less technology the government promotes as helping to stem the spread of the virus. But the efforts also have renewed questions about mass surveillance in the federation of seven sheikhdoms, which experts believe has among the highest per capita concentrations of surveillance cameras in the world.
Dubai’s airport started offering the program to all passengers last month. On Sunday, travelers stepped up to an iris scanner after checking in, gave it a good look and breezed through passport control within seconds. Gone were the days of paper tickets or unwieldy phone apps.
https://apnews.com/article/travel-dubai-united-arab-emirates-coronavirus-pandemic-artificial-intelligence-4c8f2fb1f62df394e29e8365b3bd105e
#dubai #biometric #privacy
Dubai’s airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, can already feel surreal, with its cavernous duty-free stores, artificial palm trees, gleaming terminals, water cascades and near-Arctic levels of air conditioning.
Now, the key east-west transit hub is rolling out another addition from the realm of science fiction — an iris-scanner that verifies one’s identity and eliminates the need for any human interaction when entering or leaving the country.
It’s the latest artificial intelligence program the United Arab Emirates has launched amid the surging coronavirus pandemic, contact-less technology the government promotes as helping to stem the spread of the virus. But the efforts also have renewed questions about mass surveillance in the federation of seven sheikhdoms, which experts believe has among the highest per capita concentrations of surveillance cameras in the world.
Dubai’s airport started offering the program to all passengers last month. On Sunday, travelers stepped up to an iris scanner after checking in, gave it a good look and breezed through passport control within seconds. Gone were the days of paper tickets or unwieldy phone apps.
https://apnews.com/article/travel-dubai-united-arab-emirates-coronavirus-pandemic-artificial-intelligence-4c8f2fb1f62df394e29e8365b3bd105e
#dubai #biometric #privacy
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At Dubai airport, travelers' eyes become their passports
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Dubai’s airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, can already feel surreal, with its cavernous duty-free stores, artificial palm trees, gleaming terminals, water cascades and near-Arctic levels of air conditioning.
Mexico moves to require biometric data from cellphone users
Activists and opposition figure are crying foul after Mexico's Senate passed legislation to require cellphone companies to gather customers' biometric data, like fingerprints or eye scans
Activists and opposition figures cried foul Wednesday after Mexico’s Senate passed legislation to require cellphone companies to gather customers’ identification and biometric data, like fingerprints or eye scans.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party supported the bill, saying it is needed to fight crimes like extortion and kidnapping that frequently involve the use of cellphones.
The legislation, which was already passed by the Chamber of Deputies, would give cell companies two years to collect the data and make it available to the government.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-moves-require-biometric-data-cellphone-users-77078714
#mexico #biometric #cellphone #privacy #surveillance
Activists and opposition figure are crying foul after Mexico's Senate passed legislation to require cellphone companies to gather customers' biometric data, like fingerprints or eye scans
Activists and opposition figures cried foul Wednesday after Mexico’s Senate passed legislation to require cellphone companies to gather customers’ identification and biometric data, like fingerprints or eye scans.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party supported the bill, saying it is needed to fight crimes like extortion and kidnapping that frequently involve the use of cellphones.
The legislation, which was already passed by the Chamber of Deputies, would give cell companies two years to collect the data and make it available to the government.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/mexico-moves-require-biometric-data-cellphone-users-77078714
#mexico #biometric #cellphone #privacy #surveillance
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Mexico moves to require biometric data from cellphone users
Activists and opposition figure are crying foul after Mexico's Senate passed legislation to require cellphone companies to gather customers' biometric data, like fingerprints or eye scans
With the Kremlin’s blessing, Russian companies embrace biometric ambitions
Between “pay with your face” programs in supermarkets and facial recognition cameras in the metro, Russians are adjusting to a new reality.
On a busy Friday afternoon at a supermarket in Moscow, customers were waiting in line to pay for their groceries. Most planned to use credit cards or cash, unaware that they had a new option: to pay by simply looking at the camera.
In March, X5, Russia’s biggest food retailer, began testing the “Pay with Your Face” program in around 170 stores in the capital. Developed in partnership with Visa and Sberbank, Russia’s biggest bank, the program is open to Sberbank cardholders — as many as 50 million people — with 400,000 currently using it, according to Sberbank. It works via a high-resolution 3D camera and confirms an individual’s identity by scanning 200 facial points and taking “into account a person’s height and changes in appearance,” according to X5. This biometric data is then transmitted via “highly secure, encrypted channels” back to Sberbank.
X5, which has a market capitalization of over $8.6 billion and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, first began incorporating biometric payments technology into self-service checkout terminals back in 2019. After initial tests, it increased the number of terminals last year and, this year, is planning to install the systems in at least 6,000 devices in 1,500 stores across Russia. While other banks and retailers have experimented with this technology in the past — including the Azbuka Vkusa supermarket chain, which introduced biometric payments in 2019 — this is the biggest pilot in Russia to date that relies on biometric tech alone.
https://restofworld.org/2021/with-the-kremlins-blessing-russian-companies-embrace-biometric-ambitions/
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Between “pay with your face” programs in supermarkets and facial recognition cameras in the metro, Russians are adjusting to a new reality.
On a busy Friday afternoon at a supermarket in Moscow, customers were waiting in line to pay for their groceries. Most planned to use credit cards or cash, unaware that they had a new option: to pay by simply looking at the camera.
In March, X5, Russia’s biggest food retailer, began testing the “Pay with Your Face” program in around 170 stores in the capital. Developed in partnership with Visa and Sberbank, Russia’s biggest bank, the program is open to Sberbank cardholders — as many as 50 million people — with 400,000 currently using it, according to Sberbank. It works via a high-resolution 3D camera and confirms an individual’s identity by scanning 200 facial points and taking “into account a person’s height and changes in appearance,” according to X5. This biometric data is then transmitted via “highly secure, encrypted channels” back to Sberbank.
X5, which has a market capitalization of over $8.6 billion and is listed on the London Stock Exchange, first began incorporating biometric payments technology into self-service checkout terminals back in 2019. After initial tests, it increased the number of terminals last year and, this year, is planning to install the systems in at least 6,000 devices in 1,500 stores across Russia. While other banks and retailers have experimented with this technology in the past — including the Azbuka Vkusa supermarket chain, which introduced biometric payments in 2019 — this is the biggest pilot in Russia to date that relies on biometric tech alone.
https://restofworld.org/2021/with-the-kremlins-blessing-russian-companies-embrace-biometric-ambitions/
#Russia #biometric #privacy
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With the Kremlin’s blessing, Russian companies embrace biometric ambitions
Between “pay with your face” programs in supermarkets and facial recognition cameras in the metro, Russians are adjusting to a new reality.
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Hacking the Samsung Galaxy S8 Irisscanner
Mobile vendors have established fingerprints as a biometric feature to unlock smartphones. Now they turn to iris recognition, as do hackers. This video demonstrates how to circumvent the iris recognition of the Samsung Galaxy S8 flagship phone only using basic tools.
https://media.ccc.de/v/biometrie-s8-iris-en
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Mobile vendors have established fingerprints as a biometric feature to unlock smartphones. Now they turn to iris recognition, as do hackers. This video demonstrates how to circumvent the iris recognition of the Samsung Galaxy S8 flagship phone only using basic tools.
https://media.ccc.de/v/biometrie-s8-iris-en
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Users in Texas, Illinois can no longer use certain filters on Instagram and Facebook
Fun social media filters are now banned in Texas and Illinois. Meta turned off AR #filters in the two states after they accused the company of misusing #facial #recognition technology.
Some filters are still available on apps like #Facebook and #Instagram, but the filters that use facial recognition are now gone, thanks to new state laws.
#Texas accused #Meta of violating #privacy rights through its technology.
In #Illinois, a class-action #lawsuit that restricted the use of #biometric data was settled.
Texas has a similar case pending.
However, Meta doesn’t believe that its technology violates facial recognition laws in Illinois and Texas.
Meta said it plans to roll out an opt-in system that would explain how its technology works and continue offering filters that map out users’ faces.
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> Meta doesn’t believe that its technology violates facial recognition laws in Illinois and Texas
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Fun social media filters are now banned in Texas and Illinois. Meta turned off AR #filters in the two states after they accused the company of misusing #facial #recognition technology.
Some filters are still available on apps like #Facebook and #Instagram, but the filters that use facial recognition are now gone, thanks to new state laws.
#Texas accused #Meta of violating #privacy rights through its technology.
In #Illinois, a class-action #lawsuit that restricted the use of #biometric data was settled.
Texas has a similar case pending.
However, Meta doesn’t believe that its technology violates facial recognition laws in Illinois and Texas.
Meta said it plans to roll out an opt-in system that would explain how its technology works and continue offering filters that map out users’ faces.
via www.ksby.com
> Meta doesn’t believe that its technology violates facial recognition laws in Illinois and Texas
Hookers believe they are virgins and politicians believe they are honest men who are benevolent towards their people
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Users in Texas, Illinois can no longer use certain filters on Instagram and Facebook
Fun social media filters are now banned in Texas and Illinois. Meta turned off AR filters in the two states after they accused the company of misusing facial recognition technology. Some filters are still available on apps like Facebook and Instagram, but…
🇳🇿 NZ police illegally collecting biometric data from Māori in the Wairarapa region, new investigation suggests
New Zealand police forces are unlawfully taking, storing, and using people’s private biometric information according to a joint investigation by the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC).
Now, the privacy commissioner confirmed they had issued a compliance notice to the police force to stop collecting duplicate photographs and biometric prints from young people in 2020. Photos were kept on devices as well as databases.
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#biometric #fingerprints #police #newzealand
New Zealand police forces are unlawfully taking, storing, and using people’s private biometric information according to a joint investigation by the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC).
Now, the privacy commissioner confirmed they had issued a compliance notice to the police force to stop collecting duplicate photographs and biometric prints from young people in 2020. Photos were kept on devices as well as databases.
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Documenting the rise of facial recognition in the UK
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=bX-Yxy1ESAQ&local=true
Facial recognition surveillance turns us into walking ID cards, and treats members of the public like suspects in a high-tech police line up.
Our new detailed report, Biometric Britain: The Expansion of Facial Recognition Surveillance, lays out how police, retailers, tech companies and even some schools are investing huge sums of money into this intrusive technology.
#UK #BigBrother #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #biometric #BigBrotherWatchUK
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=bX-Yxy1ESAQ&local=true
Facial recognition surveillance turns us into walking ID cards, and treats members of the public like suspects in a high-tech police line up.
Our new detailed report, Biometric Britain: The Expansion of Facial Recognition Surveillance, lays out how police, retailers, tech companies and even some schools are investing huge sums of money into this intrusive technology.
#UK #BigBrother #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #biometric #BigBrotherWatchUK
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Israeli Occupation: How Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Dell Enable Surveillance and Control in Palestine – June 2023
Who Profits, an Israeli research center documenting the private sector’s links to Israeli occupation, released a report in May on multinational tech companies’ role in facilitating Israel’s human rights violations.
#Apartheid #Technology #biometric #IBM #Cisco #Microsoft #Dell #AI
In September, Israel installed an AI-powered gun at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. Now, that same technology has been deployed at the entrance of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. Across occupied East Jerusalem, you can find surveillance cameras strategically placed on street corners. And throughout the West Bank, Palestinians’ encounters with Israeli soldiers often include not only violence but face-scanning apps designed to capture their personal dataWho Profits, an Israeli research center documenting the private sector’s links to Israeli occupation, released a report in May on multinational tech companies’ role in facilitating Israel’s human rights violations.
The impact of each company ranges, with some overseeing a major project while others provide equipment to a system already in place.#Apartheid #Technology #biometric #IBM #Cisco #Microsoft #Dell #AI
Nigerians raise eyebrows as CBN tells banks to require social media accounts for KYC | Biometric Update –
There have been mixed reactions by concerned parties in Nigeria following a directive by the country’s Central Bank (CBN) for all financial institutions under its regulatory purview to collect the social media accounts of users as part of Know Your Customer (KYC) processes for account opening.
The directive is contained in new customer due diligence regulations issued by the CBN last month :
https://www.cbn.gov.ng/Out/2023/FPRD/CBN%20Customer%20Due%20diligence%20Reg.%202023-combined.pdf
#Nigeria #biometric
There have been mixed reactions by concerned parties in Nigeria following a directive by the country’s Central Bank (CBN) for all financial institutions under its regulatory purview to collect the social media accounts of users as part of Know Your Customer (KYC) processes for account opening.
The directive is contained in new customer due diligence regulations issued by the CBN last month :
https://www.cbn.gov.ng/Out/2023/FPRD/CBN%20Customer%20Due%20diligence%20Reg.%202023-combined.pdf
#Nigeria #biometric
Manufacturing Bipartisan Consent For #Biometric #Surveillance
Joining me once again today is TLAV writer and researcher, and founder/editor of Unlimited Hangout, Whitney Webb, here to discuss the biometric surveillance network being built around democrat and republican alike, while they all squabble about manufactured distractions and situations designed to manufacture bipartisan consent. She explains how this is connected to the push for global governance, the digital #ID, and even Israel and their infamous #unit8200.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/whitney-webb-interview-4-17-24/
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https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/02/investigative-reports/manufacturing-consent-the-border-fiasco-and-the-smart-wall/
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Joining me once again today is TLAV writer and researcher, and founder/editor of Unlimited Hangout, Whitney Webb, here to discuss the biometric surveillance network being built around democrat and republican alike, while they all squabble about manufactured distractions and situations designed to manufacture bipartisan consent. She explains how this is connected to the push for global governance, the digital #ID, and even Israel and their infamous #unit8200.
https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/whitney-webb-interview-4-17-24/
https://rumble.com/v4q1cdb
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/02/investigative-reports/manufacturing-consent-the-border-fiasco-and-the-smart-wall/
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Whitney Webb Interview - Manufacture Bipartisan Consent For Biometric Surveillance
Joining me once again today is TLAV writer and researcher, and founder/editor of Unlimited Hangout, Whitney Webb, here to discuss the biometric surveillance network being built around democrat and republican alike, while they all squabble about manufactured…