Tag Archives: biometrics

Heathrow Airport To Adopt Face Scanners To Screen Passengers

It seems as though face recognition scanners are finally getting a fixture-hold as part of airport security. London’s Heathrow airport [...]

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Police Across The US To Use Face Scanners To ID Suspects

Law enforcement continues to adopt new technologies in an effort to make their jobs easier and keep us safer. The [...]

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EU Confronts Transhumanism With Technolife Project

Europen Union nations hope to foster meaningful debate on ethics by showing people pop culture and SciFi inspired videos and [...]

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Iris Scanning Set To Secure City in Mexico, Then the World

The million-plus citizens of Leon, Mexico are set to become the first example of a city secured through the power [...]

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India Launches Universal ID System with Biometrics

India has launched an ambitious program to fit each of its 1.2 billion residents with an Unique identification number (UID). [...]

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Chinese Woman Surgically Modifies Fingerprints to Illegally Enter Japan

When people really want to enter a country, they’ll try anything. Chinese national Lin Rong, 27, reportedly paid surgeons 100,000 [...]

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Vending Machines Take Finger Scans Instead of Cash

The day has arrived where all the money in the world is at your finger tips. Or rather, all the [...]

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Security Checks Reaching Towards Your Brain

When Descartes said “I think therefore I am” he probably didn’t know that he was answering a security question. Using [...]

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