The amount, 1.4 billion dollars, may seem large. But it is insignificant: just 1/10 of the company’s profits in the second quarter of 2024… Consequently, Meta Platforms (reminder: the parent …
Networking everywhere!
Do you think that the “internet of bodies” is a fantastic and far-fetched idea-for-the-future? You’re wrong! Look at how many hands wear smart watches: they record various kinds of personal …
Automated apartheid (I)
A new report by Amnesty International documents how the Israeli government uses an experimental facial recognition system to track Palestinians and control their movements. The findings are part of “Automated …
The filing
“It’s not what you think, my love”… The digital certificate, the “health passport” and the (health) apartheid are neither a digital certificate, nor a “passport”, nor apartheid. So what are …
Open sesame!
Some people thought that by wearing surgical masks they become unrecognizable. Maybe even invisible. To their friends maybe. But not to biometric technologies! The well-known Japanese NEC group developed and …
It falls into the police!
Are you (we are) tired / from the hammering of the hygiene terror campaign? The demagogues say it and say it again… Did they get caught by kindness, sensitivity, compassion? …
The European bio-fortress
The idea The idea of integrating European databases with data from EU citizens, as well as those coming to the EU (as tourists or migrants), has been on the discussion …
What can biometric technology reveal to employers
In recent years, increasingly advanced technology has emerged for monitoring and supervising employees in the workplace and during working hours – and even more so, outside of these two. Employers …
Genetics, biometrics and the “informatization of the body”
Introduction In a work devoted to biometrics, it might not seem obvious to devote much attention to genetics. Genetics is a very special case within the category of biometric technologies; …
Biometrics, DNA and identities: the incorporation of borders
In June 2020, we closed the text for “plague’s political dream” as follows: Certainly, reality is not that universal. The questioning of experts is one example, and the world circulating …
Smart Policing…
The report is titled From this summer 1,000 portable devices of ELAS will scan citizens’ faces during patrols; signed by Korina Petridi; date January 28, 2021; from the site “reporters …
“Biometrics”
When one “locks and unlocks” one’s mobile phone with one’s finger feels safe… isn’t that right? That if it is lost or stolen it will not be able to be …
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