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Biometric vaccination program receives grant
A project conceived of by researchers from RMIT University that intends to link infant footprint records to vaccination records has received a grant from the Grand Challenges Explorations initiative, a part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to an Asian Scientist article.
Follow Your Heart: Darpa’s Quest to Find You by Your Heartbeat
Darpa, the Pentagon’s mad-science shop, announced last week that it’s looking to improve on technologies that sniff out biometric signatures like heartbeats from behind walls. Dubbed “Biometrics-at-a-distance,” the program seeks to build sensors that can remotely identify humans from farther away and tell them apart in a crowd.
Assange Claims Existence Of Global Mobile Device Spy Network
A new project launched by Wikileaks will reveal evidence of a global surveillance network that allows governments to spy on their citizens through their smartphones and other mobile devices, website founder Julian Assange told reporters.  According to the Mirror, Assange has said that he has obtained evidence that companies are selling information that they have gathered by monitoring mobile phones and computers. In fact, he claims that over 150 different organizations worldwide have the ability to track people using handsets, intercept text messages, and listen to calls.  Those documents are being published the website’s “Spy Files” project.  “Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries,” Wikileaks said, according to Chris Martin of The Inquirer. “It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ‘political opponents’ are a reality.”

A Biometric Tower of Babel

"Let us build ourselves a biometric database with its top in the heavens" is a fair and precise paraphrase coined by bloggers describing the biometric database, by comparing it to the Towel of Babel, built with arrogance and ignorance.

Following the biometric database and identification law, a creation of such a database is currently underway in Israel, one that would contain the identifying finger prints and photos of not only wanted criminals, but of every single citizen. The recent Saudi hacker's break-in into secured databases and the subsequent publication of thousands of details of Israelis' private data and credit card numbers over the Internet comes as a warning signal alerting us to freeze the plan at once.

All the more because my personal and credit card details were among those disclosed over the Internet in this Saudi initiative, though I believe that the issue of credit card theft is of lesser significance. The credit card companies will reimburse us. I'm however more worried by the fact that databases are growing more detailed and monstrous, being an easy prey for criminals and hostile agents. Moreover, one can't call upon the State to help and act as a regulator on this, since the State itself, in establishing this database, creates the most austere hazard to human dignity, humans' farewell, rights and privacy.

The pretext for this legislation was the primitive state of our national identification cards, and the need to replace them with biometric forms of identification. This is a proper cause, yet there's nothing to do between biometric identity cards and a central database containing all of this biometric data. In fact, not a single western country, not even those issuing biometric forms of identification, is even thinking about holding such a totalitarian form of dominance.

We've been promised that this database would be totally secured. Last weeks' events prove such a goal is not viable. Every child knows that there are only three ways to completely secure a computer: by not buying it; by not connecting it to power; or alternatively by keeping it in a safe and never connecting it to a network.   -Source
Congress Pushes Biometrics

The Federal Trade Commission has no jurisdiction over government entities so when it looks with concern at the use of facial recognition technology, it’s looking at the private sector.

Facial recognition is only one of many biometric technologies, of course, and Congress is pushing hard for biometrics that can help track and control us for various purposes. If anyone should be looking with concern, it should be us looking at the federal government.

There are legitimate uses for biometrics, of course, and well-designed implementations will undoubtedly benefit us all. But biometrics programs implemented for the government will tend to prioritize hoovering up federal cash over striking delicate balances among cost, effectiveness, privacy, and civil liberties.

So let’s look at how Congress is pressing—and in one case insufficiently restraining—the rapid advance of biometrics.    -Source


National Institute for Standards and Technology Seeks Web-Linked Biometric Device

No biometric scanning device exists that has web-enabled communication and control based on a publicly available specification, says the National Institute of Standards and Technology. And NIST wants to change that.

As part of its Small Business Innovation Research program, NIST says it seeks innovative proposals for the design and development of a small form-factor, tamper-resistant and handheld fingerprint sensor. The integrated, wirelessly available web-services biometric device would include a self-contained battery/power source. The device must incorporate a physical connection for customization of the wireless controls and service. The physical connection can be USB or other; if other is chosen, NIST must approve the connection type.

The goal of this initiative, for which NIST will provide funding, is to produce a fully functional, handheld device that's capable of biometric acquisition, and controlled through web services as specified in NIST Special Publication 500-288: Specification for WS-Biometric Devices.

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