World Economic Forum Ramps Up “Known Traveller Digital Identity”
By Edward Hasbrouck On March 26, 2020, the World Economic Forum published specifications and launched a new website for a project it has christened “Known…
Biometrics
Facial Recognition Companies Profit From COVID-19 By Adding Thermal Imaging (Updated)
By MassPrivateI The biometrics industry has never been known to miss an opportunity to make a profit. Especially when it comes at the expense of…
Next Step Mobile Surveillance: How You Walk, Your Heartbeat – How Bitcoin Combats Privacy Invasion
By Graham Smith It may sound like something from a dystopian cyberpunk movie, but payment providers could soon be validating transactions by the way users…
London Police Implement Real-Time Facial Recognition Devices; U.S. Follows With First Fully Biometric Airport
By Aaron Kesel London police are set to deploy real-time facial recognition technology throughout the city; while the U.S. is also implementing the tech among…
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…
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…