canada Canada increases biometric monitoring of foreign nationals Séamus Bellamy

biometrics AI system looks at faces and rates them for responsibility, happiness, aggression, attractiveness, weirdness, and emotional stability Mark Frauenfelder

shopping Canadian mall caught collecting facial recognition data on the sly Séamus Bellamy

security Screwdriver optional: fingerprint lock broadcasts its unlock code over Bluetooth (and the steel is garbage) Cory Doctorow

law Judge to Facebook: stop deliberately misinterpreting my privacy rulings Cory Doctorow

security Cops shoot man, then interrupt his funeral to press his corpse's finger to his Iphone Cory Doctorow

travel The DHS has illegally stuffed America's airports full of $1B worth shitty, malfing facial-recognition tech Cory Doctorow

videos One week after release, iPhone X's Face ID reportedly defeated by a $150 mask Cory Doctorow

privacy The DHS is buying a new database to store biometrics for 500 million people Cory Doctorow

security Masterprints: synthetic fingerprints that unlock up to 65% of phones (in theory) Cory Doctorow

security Moral panic: Japanese girls risk fingerprint theft by making peace-signs in photographs Cory Doctorow

picks Half of all U.S. adults are in face-recognition databases, and Black people more likely to be targeted Xeni Jardin

security Rubber fingertips to use with fingerprint-based authentication systems Cory Doctorow

picks EFF: FBI & NIST's tattoo recognition program exploited prisoners, profiled based on religion, gave sensitive info to private contractors Cory Doctorow

Business Company says facial features reveal terrorists and pedophiles 80% of the time Cory Doctorow

picks Programmers' stress levels can accurately predict the quality of their code Cory Doctorow

security Hacking a phone's fingerprint sensor in 15 mins with $500 worth of inkjet printer and conductive ink Cory Doctorow

security Why biometrics suck, the Office of Personnel Management edition Cory Doctorow