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First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.

They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.

This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.

Then what? Rinse and escalate.

You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.

We don't have to wait that it escalates.

We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.

#Privacy#Biometrics#DataMinimization
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

""This latest technology helps ensure that we know who is boarding flights," said TSA’s Federal Security Director for Pennsylvania and Delaware Gerardo Spero in a news release last month. "Credential authentication plays an important role in passenger identity verification. It improves a TSA officer’s ability to validate a traveler’s photo identification while also identifying any inconsistencies associated with fraudulent travel documents."

However, there are rising concerns around the safety of biometric information storage, stemming from the lack of transparency around the database where the information is being stored.

"It's not about the integrity of your face or driver's license, it's about the database where you have no control," said India McKinney, director of federal affairs at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. There's the risk of misidentification, security breaches, plus human or technological error. The screening process also varies at different airports and even terminals, putting the burden on the traveler."

eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/n

USA TODAY · Facial recognition at TSA: What to know before your next airport screeningBy , USA TODAY
#USA#Surveillance#Biometrics
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PrivacyDigest

Cops pause use of flawed #AI #cameras secretly #monitoring streets for suspects

#NewOrleans police have reportedly spent years scanning live feeds of city streets and secretly using facial recognition to identify suspects in real time—in seeming defiance of a city ordinance designed to prevent false arrests and protect citizens' civil rights.
#facialrecognition #biometrics #civilrights #surveillance #privacy

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Ars Technica · Cops pause use of flawed AI cameras secretly monitoring streets for suspectsBy Ashley Belanger
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PrivacyDigest

US #Customs and #Border Protection Plans to #Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car

A #CBP spokesperson tells WIRED that the agency plans to expand its program for real-time face recognition at the border, potentially aiding #Trump administration efforts to track people who self-deport.
#privacy #facialrecognition #biometrics #selfdeport #deport #immigration

wired.com/story/cbp-face-recog

WIRED · US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by CarBy Caroline Haskins
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PrivacyDigest

US #Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by Car

Customs and Border Protection has called for tech companies to pitch real-time face recognition technology that can capture everyone in a vehicle—not just those in the front seats.
#privacy #cpd #facialrecognition #biometrics #surveillance

wired.com/story/cbp-photo-ever

WIRED · US Border Agents Are Asking for Help Taking Photos of Everyone Entering the Country by CarBy Caroline Haskins
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, identify-verification technology startup says it will begin expanding to the US starting May 1 and will launch a phone-like hardware device by next year. Those changes—and a promised World-branded debit card—signal the company’s ambitions to develop a “super app”—a goal shared by Elon Musk.

Altman and Alex Blania, a German physics researcher, announced at an event in San Francisco Wednesday evening that their venture-backed company, Tools for Humanity, is updating its “World” products to include a new, smaller, eye-scanning orb. The device-and-app combo scans people’s irises, creates a unique user ID, stores that information on the blockchain, and uses it as a form of identity verification. If enough people adopt the app globally, the thinking goes, it could ostensibly thwart scammers.

Altman has expressed concern about the amount of fakery that new AI tools will enable, including the generative AI tools pioneered by his other startup, OpenAI, which is valued at $300 billion. So the World app, and its hardware component, are Altman’s solution to the problem."

wired.com/story/sam-altman-orb

WIRED · Sam Altman's Eye-Scanning Orb Is Now Coming to the USBy Lauren Goode
#IdentityVerification#Biometrics#FacialRecognition
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Schneier on Security RSS

Another Move in the Deepfake Creation/Detection Arms Race

Deepfakes are now mimicking heartbeats
In a nutshell

Recent research reveals that high-quality deepfakes unintentionally retain the he... schneier.com/blog/archives/202

Schneier on Security · Another Move in the Deepfake Creation/Detection Arms Race - Schneier on SecurityDeepfakes are now mimicking heartbeats In a nutshell Recent research reveals that high-quality deepfakes unintentionally retain the heartbeat patterns from their source videos, undermining traditional detection methods that relied on detecting subtle skin color changes linked to heartbeats. The assumption that deepfakes lack physiological signals, such as heart rate, is no longer valid. This challenges many existing detection tools, which may need significant redesigns to keep up with the evolving technology. To effectively identify high-quality deepfakes, researchers suggest shifting focus from just detecting heart rate signals to analyzing how blood flow is distributed across different facial regions, providing a more accurate detection strategy...
#Uncategorized#biometrics#deepfake
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