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Natural Security releases new privacy rules and guidelines

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Natural Security has released new privacy rules and best practice guidelines, following recent consumer trials in France and with San Jose University. “It is imperative that anyone implementing biometric authentication technology maintains the privacy and security of the end user at all times. One of our key differentiators is that no personal or biometric information ever needs to be stored anywhere other than on the user’s own device. Therefore, authentication will only work if they have that device on them

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Biometric payments in school cafeterias: Privacy nightmare or lunchroom revolution?

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Lunchrooms have gone through some significant changes since the days of mystery meats, food fights, and anything with traces of peanuts. But beyond Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, technology is changing the cafeteria experience in the form of biometric payments. Around the world, many cafeterias are being fitted with biometric payment systems for students to purchase lunch, and these systems tout some appealing benefits: kids don’t need to carry cash, kids who lose money don’t need to go without food, lunch

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Location Tracking and Biometrics Conference to take place March 3, focus on issues of privacy

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The Location Tracking and Biometrics Conference is set to take place, March 3, 2013 at Yale Law School, and promises to bring together leading experts in law, politics and academics to discuss the implications, privacy concerns and the future for location tracking and biometrics. The conference will consist of four panel discussions and will discuss various forms of location tracking and the implications of biometric identification, as well as to analyze legal problems and to propose statutory solutions. “This conference

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Use of biometric gun lockers should be mandatory

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It’s undeniable that America has a destructive gun culture that is borne out by the high correlation between mass gun ownership and violence. The continued embrace of a constitutional protection to “bear arms” which was devised over 200 years ago to protect 13 colonies from British tyranny has ensured that the contemporary United States is awash with more guns than people, along with more gun violence. In 2009, the U.S. Congress estimated that there were 310 million firearms in the

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Sinton Independent School District in Texas introduces biometric attendance to school buses

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Students in the Sinton Independent School District in Texas will soon be fingerprinted when boarding the school bus. Sinton is the first school district in Texas to use the technology and this week has been spent by staff recording fingerprints. By next week, biometric systems are set to be installed on school district buses, Kristv.com reported. When students board the bus, all they have to do is scan their fingerprint and the time clock will record the information and sync

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GfK upgrades ad testing system, looks to new emotional recognitions

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GfK has integrated EMO Scan, its award-winning biometric measure of emotional response, into its existing ad testing system. EMO Scan gains consumers’ permission to use their own webcams, to track their facial movement in real time as they view advertising. EMO scan biometrically measures moment-by-moment emotional reactions to advertising, studying the type and intensity of emotions ads evoke in viewers. “Our system is unique because it reads people’s authentic emotional response to advertising using an exposure environment that is not

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Australian Immigration officials crack down on illegal workers and visa fraud with facial recognition

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Immigration officials in Australia are cracking down on visa fraud and illegal workers as a part of a national identity fraud campaign and are using facial recognition to aid the crackdown. The massive campaign involves the cooperation of the state, Commonwealth and international agencies and has so far identified many visa over-stayers and illegal migrant workers. “Employers should be aware it is a criminal offence to knowingly or recklessly allow a person to work illegally or to refer an illegal

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Regulators confirm Facebook has deleted European facial recognition data

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The Irish data protection commissioner along with a German data protection regulator have confirmed that Facebook has deleted all European facial recognition data after reviewing the social networking giant’s source code. Reported previously in BiometricUpdate.com, Facebook recently announced its facial recognition feature to automatically generate tag suggestions has been re-enabled for U.S users, following “technical improvements.” The feature was first rolled out in 2010 and was widespread by 2011. “We recently reviewed the source code and execution process used in

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Greater Egg Harbor High School District to install biometric payment system for students

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The Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District in New Jersey is set to install a biometric fingerprint payment system for students to purchase lunch. The system, called Meal Pay Plus, will be installed by Horizon and will be paid for by the district’s food service program. “It eliminates the use of cash in the building, making it less of a liability,” Greater Egg Harbor Regional School District Board of Education Secretary and School Business Administrator Charles Muller told the

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BiometricUpdate.com parent company quoted in Ottawa Citizen article

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Rawlson King, Biometrics Research Group Inc. (parent company of BiometricUpdate.com) contributing editor, was quoted in an article about surveillance in the weekend edition of the Ottawa Citizen newspaper. Reporter Ian MacLeod examines what surveillance means for our privacy, and interviewed King about the impact of big data on privacy and personal security implications. “Technology is emerging that allows us to be tracked at unprecedented rates by law enforcement and intelligence agencies without effective oversight,” says King. “I’m not conspiratorial but

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