Biometrics

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• Project FAST: Orwellian Technology at Homeland Security

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 452
  The project, named FAST (or Fast Attribute Screening Technologies), uses noninvasive advanced technologies to determine the facial temperature, eye movement, respiration rate, voice pitch, heart rate, and a variety of other indicators to determine the likelihood of an individual being dangerous.Related posts: ...
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• FBI and Military’s new $328 million Biometrics Technology Center touts DNA and facial recognition

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 452
  The center will develop new identification methods to be used by the FBI and military such as DNA and facial recognition software. Agents will also be trained on how to use this technology.Related posts: Some States now use facial recognition to issue drivers licenses California DMV Considering Facial Recognition ...
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• HP Racist Webcam - Facial Recognition Far From Perfect

  
  Information Security Short Takes — Authority: 120
  On the 10th of December a tongue-in-cheek demo of a failure of a HP webcam was published on YouTube. The video shows the failure of a software which is designed to recognize the speakers face and react so it is always centered on the face. The failure is that the software does not recognize a black persons face, ...
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• Five Contact Center Technologies CIOs Should Mandate

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 144
  Customers want to decide what information they want, and they want to have multiple ways of getting it. read more
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• Simplified Analysis: Forging A Biometric ID

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 476
  By Bozidar Spirovski , CISSP, MCSA, MCP But most of those issues are related to encryption, materials and generally anything that requires a lot of technical knowledge. Here is an example of the possibility to create a fake Biometric ID with very little technical knowledge. In order to understand this ...
  6 days ago

• REAL ID is Punted Again

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 441
  REAL ID is Punted Again : Via CDT - Center for Democracy & Technology. . DHS pushed back the December 31 deadline for REAL ID compliance until May 11, 2011  providing (at least in theory) the 46 states that have not yet improved drivers license standard more time to do so.  WIth PASS ID — the bill that ...
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• Papers Please: States get more time to comply with Real ID

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 452
  The Obama administration will abandon a Dec. 31 deadline for states to tighten security requirements for drivers licenses, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday.
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• Top 10 Business Technology Trends for 2010

  
  iTechnoBuzz!! — Authority: 121
  Technology never stops moving, but what are the technologies that CIOs and IT managers really need to consider in 2010?We sampled opinions among analysts, vendors, users, IT professionals, system integrators and pundits and came up with the following 10 to watch:1. Cloud computingCloud computing now comes in at least ...
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• British ID card program meets resistance

  
  ID in the News — Authority: 125
  Henry Chu writes in the Los Angeles Times: For skeptics, the ID cards represent one more intrusion on their privacy, yet another government attempt to keep tabs on a citizenry that’s already among the most monitored on Earth, thanks to the countless cameras mounted in public places. As repositories of biometric ...
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• Cermetek Introduces Medically Approved Modem Module

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 449
  
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• Allotment of unique IDs to start Feb 2011: Nilekeni

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Bangalore, Dec 19 (IANS) The process of allotting unique identification numbers in the country will begin in Feb 2011, head of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Nandan Nilekeni said here Saturday.Karnataka is among the three states from where the process will start, Nilekeni told reporters after ...
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• What should me and my husband expect at the USCIS interview when applying for adjustment of status?

  
  http://diddy.name — Authority: 170
  We have already gone to the biometrics portion of the process and now we have to attend a meeting in Atlanta. What should we expect? Is it very serious? What kind of questions do they ask?
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• Top 10 Things to Consider When Choosing a PHR

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 152
  “At some point, hopefully in the not so distant future, physicians, clinics and hospitals will reach for the ARRA/HITECH Act carrot, adopt a certified EHR and demonstrate meaningful use. One proposed requirement for meaningful use that will likely pass through the CMS rule making process is the requirement allowing ...
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• new world next week - dec17

  
  media monarchy — Authority: 130
  Its drug money in the brave new world with a cyber/space\war to boot on this episode of The New World Next Week from James Corbett of CorbettReport.com & James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com. There is a lot of evidence that drugs, and more specifically drug money, make the world go round - and fresh research ...
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• Top 10 Things to Consider When Choosing a PHR

  
  Chilmark Research — Authority: 457
  At some point, hopefully in the not so distant future, physicians, clinics and hospitals will reach for the ARRA/HITECH Act carrot, adopt a certified EHR and demonstrate meaningful use.  One proposed requirement for meaningful use that will likely pass through the CMS rule making process is the requirement allowing ...
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• Lockface USB Drive Uses Your Ugly Face For Security

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 136
  If you have trouble remembering passwords, then fingerprint/facial recognition technology can be an effective way to keep access to your valuable data. The Lockface system works through the use of a webcam – no webcam and you’re out of luck – to match with a stored image of your face with 98% accuracy. I am not ...
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• GunVault Announces Launch of New Web Site

  
  AmmoLand.com — Authority: 621
  GunVault Announces Launch of New Web Site GunVaults New Web Site Gun Vault San Bernardino, Calif. - - (AmmoLand.com) - GunVault announces its all-new Web site, www.GunVault.com, featuring a new, fresh design, socially connected capabilities and interactive product information. The new GunVault.com was ...
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• We live in an era of 24/7 surveillance, but the pervasive practices come with a risk

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 452
  Orwells vision of a repressive state in which citizens were subject to constant surveillance and a steady diet of propaganda intended to amplify perceived threats to the homeland from faceless but fanatical foreign enemies who were engaged in perpetual war was cast as amusing but far-fetched.
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• Move to National ID Cards Delayed

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 452
  The deadline was Dec. 31 for the states to create what would be the largest identification database of its kind under the auspices of the Real ID program. The law also mandates uniform anti-counterfeiting standards for state driver’s licenses.
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• Please take our biometrics survey

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 141
  The Consumer Travel Alliance is conducting a survey of travelers attitudes toward biometric screening. This includes fingerprinting, photographs and iris scans. It will mean more time passing through international borders and require visitors to share far more information than before with border control agents.
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