America Is The 4th Worst Abuser Of Biometric Privacy Rights In The World
By MassPrivateI Does anyone really believe America is still the land of the free? Since 9/11, DHS, the FBI, the CIA, and countless other alphabet…
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They’re STILL After Your Fingerprints! — Propaganda Watch
By corbettreport Remember when we looked at J. Edgar Hoover’s lame attempt to get the public to voluntarily send in their fingerprints to the FBI…
Airports of the Future: Surveillance by Design
By Edward Hasbrouck As we’ve seen in the ongoing debate over biometric identification of travelers at Sea-Tac Airport, and as we’ve seen before elsewhere, airlines…
DHS Walks Back Proposed Facial Recognition Exit Scans For Americans Traveling
By Aaron Kesel The Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) branch has reversed a previous proposed plan to require all U.S. citizens…
5G, Smart Street Lights, Face Recognition, and Doorbell Cameras, Oh My!
By The Conscious Resistance Derrick Broze breaks down a series of stories relating to surveillance. Source: San Diego Smart Street Lights Draw Criticism From Activists…
Amazon Ring Doorbell Camera to Build Watchlist of “Suspicious” Neighbors for Police
By John Vibes Ring, the home security system developed by Amazon, is planning to build a database of neighborhood watchlists using facial recognition technology. Documents…
Facial Recognition “Robocops” See Through Our Clothes And Listen To Our Phone Calls
By MassPrivateI It has been six months, since I informed the public about the dangers of police Knightscope robots that look an awful lot like…
Patriot Extension, sElection Blackout, Thumbprint Streaming
By corbettreport Welcome back to #NewWorldNextWeek – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in…
DHS Expects To Have The Biometrics Data of 259 Million People by 2022
By Mac Slavo The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expects to have face, fingerprint, and iris scans of at least 259 million people in…
While You Slept, Government Created Internal Passports
By Peter C. Earle The deadline of yet another, and perhaps the most insidious, element of the post-9/11 initiatives (a partial list of which includes…
ACLU Sues FBI And Other Agencies, Defending Privacy Rights Of Americans Against Facial Recognition
By Aaron Kesel The ACLU has sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other federal agencies, making claims that the government is improperly withholding…
We’re Being Blinded to the Danger of Facial Recognition
By Michael Maharrey We’ve become increasingly comfortable with facial recognition technology. We use it to unlock our phones and to skip the security line at…
Amazon Facial Recognition Falsely Identified 27 Pro Athletes As Criminals
By John Vibes Police and government agencies are becoming increasingly reliant on facial recognition software to hunt for suspects, despite the fact that this technology…
Beijing To Link Facial Recognition System With Social Credit Score In New Metro Security Checks
By Tyler Durden Officials in Beijing will combine the country’s state-of-the-art facial recognition technology with a version of their controversial ‘credit system’ to speed up…