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How the arms industry drives Fortress Europe’s expansion - 28 juin 2020
In March, April, and May of this year, multiple European countries deployed military forces to their national borders. This was done to assist with controls and patrols in the wake of border closures and other movement restrictions due to the Covid-19 crisis. Poland deployed 1,460 soldiers to the border to support (...)
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IDemia - 18 juin 2020
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Idemia est une entreprise française qui se présente comme le « leader de l’identité augmentée ». Elle est née en 2017 de la fusion de Morpho (Safran), considéré comme chef de file mondial d’identification biométrique et d’Oberthur Technologies, spécialisé dans la fabrication de carte à puce et de documents (...)
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Scaled-up surveillance : the EU builds a massive biometric database - 12 juin 2020
An upcoming biometrics repository will hold the records of 300 million people and could hand a potentially powerful surveillance tool to its member states
At its headquarters in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, on the Baltic Coast, a little-known European Union body is building one of the world’s largest biometric (...)
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A Single Company Will Now Operate Facial Recognition for Nearly 800 Million People - 6 juin 2020
Idemia just scored a major new contract with the EU
Idemia, a French company specializing in facial, fingerprint, and iris recognition, just scored a new contract with the European Union that will include processing images attached to more than 400 million people’s identities. The company’s algorithms will verify (...)
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Amid coronavirus, USC is requiring facial recognition scans of students living on campus, but the technology sparks controversy - 21 mai 2020
Amid coronavirus, USC is requiring facial recognition scans of students living on campus, but the technology sparks controversy
The facial recognition device at USC also links to a questionable South Korean company that boasts contracts with government agencies.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, USC has (...)
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Under Surveillance - 2 mai 2020
In 2010, European Digital Rights, a Brussels based non-profit that campaigns on issues relating to privacy and freedom of expression, published “Under Surveillance,” which deals with the subjects of data protection, counter-terror measures and (...)
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In Kenya, thousands face an uncertain future without ID cards - Coda Story - 17 avril 2020
A government program for citizens and refugees highlights the pitfalls of humanitarian biometrics
Amina Ali Adan was born in the Kenyan town of Garissa, 65 miles away from Dadaab, one of the world’s largest refugee camps, situated near the Somali border. She is just one of tens of thousands of Kenyan citizens who (...)
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A mountable toilet system for personalized health monitoring via the analysis of excreta | Nature Biomedical Engineering - 7 avril 2020
Technologies for the longitudinal monitoring of a person’s health are poorly integrated with clinical workflows, and have rarely produced actionable biometric data for healthcare providers. Here, we describe easily deployable hardware and software for the long-term analysis of a user’s excreta through data (...)
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Nieuwe Belgische eID-document valt internationaal in de prijzen - Nieuws - Data News - 12 mars 2020
De nieuwe versie van het Belgische eID-document heeft op de High Security Printing-conferentie in Lissabon de prijs voor ’beste regionale identiteitsbewijs’ gewonnen.
Minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, Veiligheid en Buitenlandse Handel Pieter De Crem toont de nieuwe Belgische eID-kaart © Belga Image
De prijs is een (...)
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EU Police Push for Pan-European Facial Recognition Network - 22 février 2020
A police investigator in Spain is trying to solve a crime, but she only has an image of a suspect’s face, caught by a nearby security camera. European police have long had access to fingerprint and DNA databases throughout the 27 countries of the European Union and, in certain cases, the United States. But soon, (...)
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How the Police Use Facial Recognition, and Where It Falls Short - 1er février 2020
After a high-speed chase north of Orlando, Fla., sheriff’s deputies punctured the tires of a stolen Dodge Magnum and brought it to a stop. They arrested the driver, but couldn’t determine who he was. The man had no identification card. He passed out after stuffing something into his mouth. And his fingerprints, the (...)
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5 questions sur le piratage du téléphone de Jeff Bezos par l’Arabie saoudite - 29 janvier 2020
Le piratage dont a été victime le patron d’Amazon, attribué au pouvoir saoudien, est exceptionnel et pas à la portée du premier espion amateur venu.
Une analyse d’enquêteurs privés, qui a servi de base à un rapport à paraître des Nations Unies, affirme que le téléphone de Jeff Bezos, l’homme le plus riche du monde, a été (...)
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The Secret History of Facial Recognition | WIRED - 27 janvier 2020
Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for ?
Woody Bledsoe was sitting in a wheelchair in his open garage, waiting. To anyone who had seen him even a few months earlier—anyone (...)
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Interdire la reconnaissance faciale (2/3) : quelles discriminations notre société est-elle prête à accepter ? | InternetActu.net - 24 janvier 2020
La reporter Tech du New York Times, Kashmir Hill (@kashhill), vient de publier une longue enquête sur Clearview, une entreprise spécialiste de la surveillance, financée par le multimilliardaire libertarien Peter Thiel – qui est déjà à l’origine de Palantir (Wikipédia), un autre géant de la surveillance qui travaille pour (...)
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La nouvelle carte d’identité, avec les empreintes digitales, testée dès mardi - 10 janvier 2020
C’est la commune de Lokeren qui donnera le départ.
La phase de test du nouveau modèle de carte d’identité, qui arbore un nouveau design et comporte les empreintes digitales du porteur, débutera mardi dans certaines communes. C’est la commune de Lokeren qui donnera le départ : le bourgmestre Filip Anthuenis (Open VLD) (...)
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Gand : des élèves paieront bientôt leur sandwich avec leurs empreintes digitales - 18 décembre 2019
L’école secondaire Sint-Bavo de Gand testera dès le mois d’octobre le paiement des sandwichs, des ticket-repas à l’aide de leurs empreintes digitales. "Nous sommes la première école à effectuer des paiements avec des données biométriques", a déclaré la directrice, Hilde Allaert, à nos collègues de la VRT. Sur base de ces (...)
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Airport and Payment Facial Recognition Systems Fooled by Masks and Photos, Raising Security Concerns - 15 décembre 2019
Masks and simple photographs are enough to fool some facial recognition technology, highlighting a major shortcoming in what is billed as a more effective security tool.
The test, by artificial intelligence company Kneron, involved visiting public locations and tricking facial recognition terminals into allowing (...)
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At least 10 police forces use face recognition in the EU, AlgorithmWatch reveals - 15 décembre 2019
The majority of the police forces that answered questions by AlgorithmWatch said they use or plan to introduce face recognition. Use cases vary greatly across countries, but almost all have in common their lack of transparency.
Police departments have long attempted to acquire, structure and store data on the (...)
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Fingerprint Analysis Is High-Stakes Work — but It Doesn’t Take Much to Qualify as an Expert - 1er décembre 2019
Brendan Max and two of his colleagues in the Cook County, Illinois, public defender’s office got some good news and some bad news in the spring of 2018. Actually, it was the same news : The three lawyers had nearly aced a proficiency test designed for fingerprint examiners.
None of them had any training or real (...)
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Au Sénat, feu vert à l’expérimentation d’une « carte Vitale biométrique » - 15 novembre 2019
Au nom de la lutte contre la fraude, la commission des affaires sociales du Sénat a adopté hier une proposition de loi tendant à « instituer une carte Vitale biométrique ». Les sénateurs ont toutefois dilué le texte en le transformant en une simple expérimentation.
« Si la circulation de millions de fausses cartes Vitale (...)
