The Global Biometrics Reservation Proves You Can't Hide In A Crowd
• gigapixel.com/Keep clicking on a face to enlarge the image. Spooky!
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Your Smart Phone Will Be Your Biometric Ankle Monitor Device
• nearfieldcommunicationsworld.comIn the test, the demonstrator swiped a finger over the smartphone's fingerprint sensor to authenticate himself as the pre-enrolled account owner and to launch a credit card app.
Mobile Biometrics to Hit US Streets: Creating A Global Reservation
• InformationClearingHouse.infoWe're fast approaching a time when law enforcement will no longer need to ask you for your identification - your physical self, and the biometric data therein, are all that will be required to identify you.
Google Acquires Facial Biometric Company
• homelandsecuritynewswire.comFollowing Facebook's decision to implement biometric facial recognition software, Google has acquired a company to boost its facial recognition capabilities; the search giant recently purchasd Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt)...
Court sanctions CIA for destroying torture tapes
• http://www.rawstory.com/The CIA was sanctioned by a federal court Monday and ordered to reimburse the ACLU for legal fees expended trying to obtain evidence that the agency tortured terror war prisoners during the Bush administration.
Smart Meters – The Ultimate Big Brother
• Speak Truth 2 PowerVIDEO explaining what Smart (Spy) Meters actually do, and how to make sure that you do not get one of these.
Biometric Hell: Police Across The US To Use Face Scanners To ID Suspects
• singularityhub.comThe latest gizmo attaches to officers’ iPhones and turns them into biometric face scanners. The scanners have already been street tested in Massachusetts. Pretty soon cops all across the US will be using them to ID suspects.
Quartzsite, Arizona Update July 21: Chief Suspends 80% of Police Force
• http://www.prisonplanet.com/About 5 pm PST, The Desert Freedom Press learned that under the current “emergency”, Police Chief Jeff Gilbert has suspended ALL officers who filed criminal and ethical complaints against him.
Law enforcement to begin iPhone iris scans amid privacy concerns
• InfoWars.com/The so-called “biometric” technology, which seems to take a page from TV shows like “MI-5″ or “CSI,” could improve speed and accuracy in some routine police work in the field. However, its use has set off alarms with some who are concerned abou
Big Brother Creep Out: 7 Ways US Govt. Invades Brains (10 Yrs Ago)
• pcworld.comDARPA, in a nutshell, wants to know about how stories or narratives or whatever might like to call them influence human behavior.
TSA Gone Wild
• Free Patriot Press"Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government...Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and p
Amid Privacy Fears, Police Across the Nation Will Roll Out Face-Recognizing iPhone Tech
• http://www.popsci.com/A controversial piece of facial recognition technology (and a PopSci “Best of What’s New 2010” alum) is rolling out in police stations across the country this fall, and naturally not everyone is happy about it.
A Match Made In Hell: Voice Biometrics and Smart Phones
• business-standard.com/With voice biometrics phone banking authentication, real time fraudsters detection and private banking security among other benefits accrue. It could also help in government and homeland security, and other secure access to many services.
Cashless Society Hooks: Google & Punchd?
• digitaltrends.comIt’s rumored that Google plans on acquiring the San Francisco based loyalty card service called Punchd Labs Inc., or Punchd. The move by the search engine giant is most likely an attempt to bolster their NFC payment system Google Wallet.
Recognizing Faces, Any Which Way You Can
• fastcompany.comChongqing city, China, is about to get a giant Orwellian surveillance network of half a million cameras that will spy on areas like street intersections, parks, and neighborhoods. Cisco is rumored to be one of the key pieces in the network...
Secure Communities: Backdoor Big Brother Biometric Hellhole
• ActivistPost.com/Rather than a specific initiative to deport known criminals, this is looking more and more like a sweeping move toward a Big Brother total surveillance grid.
A Biometric Hellhole: The FBI's Next Generation Identification
• eff.orgThe Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and several other organizations released documents from a FOIA lawsuit that expose the concerted efforts of the FBI and DHS to build a massive database of personal and biometric information.
Researcher Who Refused FBI Wire Expects Arrest
• http://www.bloomberg.com/John Kinnucan, the expert-networking firm founder whose public refusal of an FBI request to wear a wire presaged a dozen insider-trading arrests, said he expects to be charged himself.
Federal Wiretaps Double Under Obama
• Forbes2010, it seems, was a landmark year for federal snooping. According to the U.S. courts systems’ annual report on law enforcement wiretaps, federal law enforcement requested 1,207 intercepts placed on phones and electronic communications last year, ne
Microsoft Wins Patent For Internet Spying Technology
• Information WeekMicrosoft has been granted a patent for technology that acts as a wiretap of sorts for Internet communication, allowing governments or other law-enforcement authorities to record the data without detection.
Arlington PD Testing Unmanned Aircraft
• http://www.nbcdfw.com/Department hopes to use drones in emergency situations by January
Google report reveals British government web snooping
• Daily TelegraphThe dominant search engine's Transparency Report shows that in the six months to last December, British intelligence agencies, police and other government bodies asked it to hand over data 1,162 times. In raw numbers of requests, the United States
Defeating Skype Encryption Without a Key
• SecurityWeekSkype allows customers to communicate over Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platforms. And because it is encrypted, Skype, which was recently purchased by Microsoft for $8.5 Billion, is used by many businesses today for their international phone c
Frankenpot – Marijuana gone GMO!
• Farm WarsMarijuana Growers: Hang onto your pot, here come the genetically modified genes!
No Surrender: A Music Video by Jack Gregson
• Youtube.comThis video is based on the song No Surrender by Bruce Springsteen, off the Born in the USA album. This video details moves by DHS, tech companies and military to use Biometrics along with the Cashless Society to create a Police State.
Experts make case for Biometrics in cell phones
• thirdfactor.comSeparate from security intrinsic to the phone, however, is the idea of utilizing biometric systems to secure transactions and other functions completed via the mobile phone but in an online environment.
Austin and Salt Lake City to be the Beachheads for Cashless Society
• LAtimes.com"So, we're basically putting all of those transactions on the phone, so all you have to do is wave or tap your phone to the reader and then it recognizes you're a loyalty-program member and it recognizes what coupons you've downloaded...
Chris Hedges: Prepare for 'Global Corporate Dystopia'
• Rawstory.comHis conclusions are chilling, but not entirely hopeless.
Big Brother To Further Propagandize The US Economy: Change The CPI
• ZeroHedge.comJoe Biden, who now has taken the Fukushima approach to (sur)reality, whereby one merely changes the terms of data measurement when the data does not cooperate. Enter the revised CPI:
The New FBI Powers: Cointelpro on Steroids
• LewRockwell.com"The trouble with government as it is, is that it doesn’t represent the people. It controls them." ~ John Lennon (1966)
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