EU Challenges Britain’s Fingerprinting Of Children In Schools
It’s nice to know that the classroom is preparing kids for the future. In one out of every seven British schools, pupils are compulsorily fingerprinted, with finger scanners being used in lunch rooms...
View ArticleU.S. Justice System Rampant With ‘Bad Science’
Every year, convictions for serious crimes occur based on debunked pseudo-science such as forensic dentistry and arson science. Add in poor usage of police lineups and fingerprinting, and the...
View ArticleFingerprint Analysis Technology Aims To Revolutionize Drug Testing
Photo: Fretti (CC) When someone drives a vehicle while drunk there are plenty of road side tests that police can perform to confirm the drivers intoxication. For many other drugs, such as marijuana and...
View ArticleHeineken Beer Wants Your Fingerprint
More strangeness from this past weekend’s Coachella Festival — within its big green tent, beer-maker Heineken was busy collecting a database of the fingerprints of cold-beer-loving attendees. Marketing...
View ArticleRaj Konai’s Hand: The First Biometric Identity?
From an exhibition by Raqs Media Collective at London’s Frith Street Gallery, which puts forth that modern biometric identification was invented by a British colonial official in 1858: Untold Intimacy...
View ArticleStep By Step Guide To Biometric Enrollment At The Post Office
The British Post Office has unveiled a handy instructional film on how to register your fingerprint as your identity: The post Step By Step Guide To Biometric Enrollment At The Post Office appeared...
View ArticleBrazilian Doctor Arrested For Using Silicone Fingers To Fool...
Our key-less and password-less future will hinge on being identified via our fingerprints, irises, and vocal tones. The problem is, someone else may have a copy of your finger. Via the BBC: A Brazilian...
View ArticleApple’s Fingerprint Authentication For The iPhone Is Here
The iPhone 5S, going on sale this month, unveils Apple’s plan to build a fingerprint database, err, to feature fingerprint security. Now when someone steals your phone, they will cut off your thumb as...
View ArticleSenator Raises Concern That The FBI Could Access iPhone Fingerprint Data
Those who find Apple’s new fingerprint reader disturbing apparently include members of Congress. Ars Technica reports: On Thursday, the Minnesota senator Al Franken, the chairman of the Senate...
View ArticleThe Police And Fingerprint-Based Security
The Chaos Computer Club on why authorities are in love with biometrically unlockable devices: “It is plain stupid to use something that you can’t change and that you leave everywhere every day as a...
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