Tag: Biometrics
Government agencies are tapping a facial recognition company to prove you’re...
Beginning this summer, you might need to upload a selfie and a photo ID to a private company, ID.me, if you...
Feds are increasing use of facial recognition systems – despite calls...
James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Despite growing opposition, the U.S. government is on track to increase its use of...
The Taliban reportedly have control of US biometric devices – a...
Margaret Hu, Penn State
In the wake of the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul and the ouster of the Afghan...
Paying with a palm print? We’re victims of our own psychology...
Pam Briggs, Northumbria University, Newcastle
The online retail giant Amazon has moved from our screens to our streets, with...
Countries around the world are using border surveillance systems against their...
Keren Weitzberg, UCL
Hamdi was just an infant when his relatives first brought him to the Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya to be registered...
Congress is considering privacy legislation – be afraid
Jeff Sovern, St. John's University
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis called privacy the “right to be let alone.” Perhaps Congress should give states trying to...
Research on how self-control works could help you stick with New...
Marco A. Palma, Texas A&M University
Many of us have already decided that things will be different in 2018. We’ll eat better, get more...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
