Canadian academic examines intersection of technology and surveillance
The role of the academic is that of skeptic. As the late Michel Foucault, famed French historian and philosopher noted…
Articles By Rawlson King
Rawlson O’Neil King is a contributing editor at BiometricUpdate.com and is an experienced communications professional, management consultant, trade journalist and author who recently published a book about control and electronic networks and who has written numerous articles in trade publications and academic journals about smart home and building technologies. (He is currently on leave)
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The introduction of “Rapid DNA” technology will revolutionize the practice of forensics. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is…
DHS records video footage at junior hockey game for facial recognition tests
According to the Department of Homeland Security, video footage that was successfully taken at a junior hockey game last weekend…
Homeland Security to test BOSS facial recognition at junior hockey game
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will test its crowd-scanning facial recognition system, known as the Biometric Optical Surveillance System, or…
Mobile commerce will drive millions of biometric smartphone shipments, billions in transactions
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Facebook discloses government data requests
In a bid to be more transparent, Facebook has begun to publish the number of requests it receives from governments for user…
NSA illegally collected data with wide surveillance reach
This week, the U.S. Government officially released declassified documents that show that the National Security Agency was illegally collecting a broad…
U.S. government illegally spying, audit confirms
A top secret internal audit conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) found the agency broke its own privacy rules and…
U.S. government spending on big data to grow exponentially
Biometrics Research Group, Inc. has observed that national security and military applications are driving a large proportion of “Big Data”…
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