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• Canada moves forward on biometrics for Canadian visa holders

  
  Muchmor Magazine — Authority: 134
  Citizenship and Immigration Canada has been moving towards rolling out a biometric plan for Canadian visa holders to begin in 2011, a system that is expected to be fully in place by 2013. Citizenship and Immigration ...
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• Times (UK): Privacy fears as DNA testing firm deCODE Genetics goes bust

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 139
  The Times reports on possible privacy problems concerning to the closing of an Icelandic DNA-testing company. The case raises similar questions to those in the United States case of airport program Clear. Clear was the leading company in the Transportation Security Administration’s Registered Traveler program, ...
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• RFID Chip Created for Identity and Healthcare – National Human Identification System – NHIS

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 138
  Watch this video regarding Verichip and the implantable microchip, which will combine money, identity, and health records in one convenient package. Then read the article HR 3200 Institutes a National Human Identification System – NHIS. Verichip makes the chip, the FDA creates the registry, and Congress mandates ...
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• NATO forces to set up gated biometric checkpoints in Afghan villages to “win hearts and minds”

  
  Aftermath News — Authority: 518
  Biometric tests to identify rebels in Afghanistan London Times | Nov 15, 2009 by Stephen Grey THE inhabitants of combat zones in southern Afghanistan may face biometric tests in a new initiative to prevent the Taliban from infiltrating villages. After studying counter-insurgency methods employed from the Boer ...
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• Implantable tattos turn your skin into screen

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 498
  Researchers there are developing silicon-and-silk implantable devices which sit under the skin like a tattoo. Already implanted into mice, these tattoos could carry LEDs, turning your skin into a screen.
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• Researchers Develop a Facial Biometrics System Capable of Creating a Facial DNI

  
  Illuminati Conspiracy Archive Blog — Authority: 432
  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)Recognition techniques based on facial features, known as facial biometrics, is usually based on the search for those traits which make one face different from another. The research carried out by this team, in contrast, approaches the issue from a slightly different point of ...
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• telepathic teaching practices under fire [BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ]

  
  hypoetics — Authority: 117
  in the sunny terrain of terrohran a stolen laptop mumbles something from its tinny little speakers about dead bioweapon scientists overheating its memory modules. carrying this nuclear-powered equipment, a smarthand escapes biometric detection at the airport & flies west away from the heat . the smarthand ...
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• No vanity numbers for unique identity scheme, says Nilekani

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 716
  New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS) There will be no possibility of choosing your own unique identity number, Unique Identification Authority chairman Nandan Nilekani said here Wednesday.“There will be no vanity numbers,” Nilekani said at an interaction with women journalists at the Indian Women Press Corps.He said while ...
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• Registration in the Palm of Your Hand

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 154
  “When patients were admitted to the new El Camino Hospital in Mountain View for the first time on Monday, November 16, the registration process included something most people associate with sci-fi thrillers — a cutting edge biometric registration system that “reads” patients’ identities by scanning the ...
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• Webcast: “Voice Biometrics: Increased Sevice, Increased Security”

  
  Opus Research — Authority: 423
  “Voice Biometrics: Increased Sevice, Increased Security” Tuesday, November 17, 2009 (6:00 p.m. ET / 3:00 p.m. PT – North America) Wednesday, November 18, 2009 (10:00 a.m. AEDT – Australia) Sign up below to listen live, or on-demand at your convenience! Since 2007, Australia private health insurer ahm ...
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• New York Times: Law Seeks to Ban Misuse of Genetic Testing

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 139
  The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110-233) was signed in May 2008 by President Bush. He called GINA “a piece of legislation which prohibits health insurers and employers from discriminating on the basis of genetic information. In other words, it protects our citizens from having genetic ...
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• The Hill: New security system uses Wii technology and worries GOP

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 139
  The Hill reports on questions by members of Congress about the privacy implications of the “Future Attribute Screening Technology“ (FAST), which I discussed last year, as well as the Department of Homeland Security’s use of the Nintendo Wii gaming system.Several Republican lawmakers are worried about the ...
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• DNA of protesters could be held for life

  
  NWOTruth — Authority: 484
  Anti-war protesters and train spotters arrested under anti-terror laws could have their DNA kept for life under Home Office plans.Innocent members of the public detained but not charged or convicted under terrorism legislation may never have their profiles wiped from the national database because they are to be ...
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• Lawmakers Speak With One Voice: Lobbyists’ From World’s Largest Biotechnology Company

  
  PuppetGov — Authority: 498
  Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies.
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• Irish Times: Tight controls urged in use of personal data

  
  Privacy Lives — Authority: 139
  The Irish Times discusses a new report from the Irish Council for Bioethics, “Biometrics: Enhancing Security or Invading Privacy?” (5 MB pdf available here from the Irish Council for Bioethics; Privacy Lives archive copy).People are in effect giving up a piece of their bodies when they provide personal biometric ...
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• Biometrics sparks privacy fears in Ireland

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  Jared Yee reports: Collecting biometric information could put civil liberties and privacy at risk, despite considerable benefits, says the Irish Council for Bioethics (ICB). In its report, “Biometrics: Enhancing Security or Invading Privacy?”, the ICB explores privacy concerns stemming from the growing use of ...
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• Lawyer sacked from £150,000 job after DNA is wrongly put on national database

  
  ID in the News — Authority: 423
  The Daily Mail reports : A high-flying city lawyer was fired from her £150,000-a-year job after a ‘routine security check’ revealed her DNA was held on the national database – over a ‘false allegation’ made against her. Lorraine Elliott said that she felt ‘gobsmacked and depressed’ after bosses ...
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• Confidential plans for 1.2 billion ID cards for India

  
  PogoWasRight.org — Authority: 151
  From Wikileaks.org: This confidential working paper (49 pp) presents the current plan for India’s Unique ID Databse  (sic) Project. Numerous RTI (Right to Information ) petitions failed to obtain this document about the world’s biggest citizen identification scheme. Because the project will likely become a ...
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• Biometric Marker to be finalized shortly: Nandan Nilekani

  
  Ub News — Authority: 542
  The former Infosys co-chairman and Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) Nandan Nilekani yesterday said, two committees on biometrics and standardization of data processes have been formed as part of the UID project. Their reports are anticipated to be out in 2 months. He said, “in the ...
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