UNHCR Grants Election Commission Access to Rohingya Biometric Database - Digi Bangla https://digibanglatech.news/152138
Prediction - it ain't gonna end well... #No2Bio
UNHCR Grants Election Commission Access to Rohingya Biometric Database - Digi Bangla https://digibanglatech.news/152138
Prediction - it ain't gonna end well... #No2Bio
Hungary To Use Facial Recognition to Suppress Pride March - Slashdot https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/22/2333213/hungary-to-use-facial-recognition-to-suppress-pride-march
Hungary's Parliament not only voted to ban Pride events. They also voted to "allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attenders and potentially fine them," reports the Guardian. [The nationwide legislation] amends the country's law on assembly to make it an offence to hold ...
DNA of 15 Million People For Sale In 23andMe Bankruptcy
https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/03/24/2022232/dna-of-15-million-people-for-sale-in-23andme-bankruptcy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Once again, user agreements and privacy laws be damned, it's not people's lives here, it's just data, right? Capitalism beats humanism again.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: 23andMe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday, leaving the fate of millions of people's genetic information up in the air as the company deals with the legal and financial fallout of not properly protecting that genetic information in the first pl...
TSA's Airport Facial-Recognition Tech Faces Audit Probe
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/02/03/2353253/tsas-airport-facial-recognition-tech-faces-audit-probe?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has launched an audit of the TSA's use of facial recognition technology at U.S. airports following concerns from lawmakers and privacy advocates. The Register reports: Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari notified a bipartisan gr...
Identity crisis
https://kathmandupost.com/editorial/2025/02/05/identity-crisis-1738685243
The #Aadhar system, which holds the world’s largest #biometric database, has experienced multiple data breaches, including instances of fraud and misuse.
#No2Bio
רשות האוכלוסין וההגירה: אושר החוק לנטילת אמצעי זיהוי ביומטריים מזרים המגיעים לישראל רשות האוכלוסין וההגירה
https://www.gov.il/he/pages/news-biometric-documentation-foreigners23724
זהו, כולם חשודים. כמו בארה"ב. #No2Bio
Meet SIBIOS: Argentina's massive, Orwellian biometric database #no2bio
https://www.sott.net/article/267894-Meet-SIBIOS-Argentinas-massive-Orwellian-biometric-database
Two years ago, the UK dismantled their national ID scheme and shredded their National Identity Registry in response to great public outcry over the privacy-invasive program. Unfortunately privacy protections have been less rosy elsewhere. In...
האח הגדול: הצעת חוק לפריסת מצלמות זיהוי הפנים במרחב הציבורי אושרה בוועדת השרים לחקיקה | כלכליסט - https://m.calcalist.co.il/Article.aspx?guid=sywbmur1p
ועדת השרים לחקיקה אישרה את הצעת החוק של השרים לוין ובן גביר שמתירה למשטרה להציב מצלמה ביומטרית, ניידת או קבועה, במרחב הציבורי. המתנגדים: "הצבת מצלמות חכמות תמנע מאנשים להתנהג באופן חופשי מתוך חשש שהם נתונים תחת מעקב"