35 False Matches and 1 Erroneous Arrest As Police Secretly Test Facial Recognition Technology
By Nicholas West All things biometric are sweeping across the world at warp speed now, from security on planes and trains to check-ins at conferences…
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Cashless Society: China’s KFC Introduces Facial Recognition Payment System
By Nicholas West Step by step, facial recognition has been accepted by the general public for security; its appearance is proliferating at airports and at…
SPIDER: DARPA’s Program to Create a Web of Miniaturized Spy Satellites
By Nicholas West As if merely working on ways to create tiny satellites that can see every square inch of the the planet isn’t creepy…
“The Future Soldiers” Are Weaponized Drone Battalions
By Nicholas West Since the inception of Activist Post, we have been chronicling the transition from traditional military systems toward a future war matrix of…
LA Metro Begins Pilot Program for Full Body Scanners Funded by Bill Gates
By Nicholas West Once again it appears that airports are a test bed for nearly everything that will eventually trickle out into the general public. …
LAPD Still Trying to Launch Police Drones Despite Public Outcry
By Nicholas West The general concern over police spying has been addressed vigorously by the Los Angeles public for many years. As I covered in…
New Software to Diagnose Depression Based on Social Media Selfies
Editor’s Note: This is a trend that we’ve been discussing at Activist Post for some time – predictive modeling in healthcare. A series of apps…
New Graphene Electronic Tattoo for Tracking Internet of Things and Biometric IDs
By Nicholas West New biometric tracking methods seem to be rolled out by the day for policing, travel, banking, medical applications, and beyond. February of…
Facial Recognition ID Moves from Planes and Trains to Conferences and Events
By Nicholas West The use of biometric identification is becoming a real-time case study in how the public is incrementally conditioned to accept the total…
Facial Recognition ID Begins to Spread from Planes to Trains
By Nicholas West The march continues to accelerate toward a future of biometric ID for all travel. Regular readers might know that over the past…
Military Continues to Design War Matrix with “Internet of Battlefield Things”
By Nicholas West The military continues to hone its vision to build a full-scale matrix of (smart) war that is being branded the Internet of…
Scientists Turn Docile Mice Into Super Aggressive Alphas With Brain Stimulation
By Nicholas West Hacking the human brain to enhance performance seems to be the ultimate dream of technocrats and their military counterparts. We have reported…
Police Body Cameras to be Equipped with Facial Recognition
By Nicholas West Given the steady roll-out of biometrics in banking, personal computing, and travel as of late, it seemed to be just a matter…
Russian AK-47 Gun Maker Turns to Future of Autonomous Weapons
By Nicholas West The Kalashnikov AK-47 is certainly one of the most iconic automatic weapons ever devised. Today, nearly 70 years after its debut, worldwide…