End Times Technology: Biometrics – Mark, Name, Number to Buy or Sell
Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
5G + Biometric Facial / Hand Scanning + Digital / Cashless Transactions + Mark of Approval / Authorization = Tomorrow’s Economy (2020)
Biometric scanning used for migrant/border control, secure identity verification and approval, government benefits, domestic and international travel security, economic inclusion of everyone, buying/selling transactions and fund transfers, instantaneous speed of transaction and convenience, VAT/taxation collection, mobility, social credit score and ranking, population movement and tracking, monitoring political and religious ‘extremism’ (terrorists). ‘Mark, number or name’ for verification and approval.
The New Normal, Just in time for Halloween 2020; Biometric payment, access and identification cards launching around the world
Oct 24, 2020 | Chris Burt Biometrics Update
Biometric cards for payments, access control and digital identity in several regional markets featured prominently among the top news stories in the biometrics industry this week. Efforts to harness digital identity to revive the travel and tourism sector are advancing, usually in combination with facial recognition, but experts wonder if banks might be uniquely positioned to help move digital ID development along.
A new partnership on biometric payment cards by Mastercard and Idemia is being launched with a pilot expected in Q4. The card will be offered under the name F.CODE Easy, and will be issued by Singapore-based MatchMove in the Asian region.
A fingerprint access control card with proximity detection capabilities has been developed by Sentry Enterprises with an Ambiq microprocessor and Fingerprint Cards sensor modules. The card is intended to provide converged biometric access control for enhanced security in a wide range of verticals.
Huduma Namba is moving toward the issuance of identification cards, which will be embedded with biometric data to enable authenticated access to government services. Data privacy and security remains a common concern, but regulations are reported to be now in place to provide a legal framework for Huduma cards.
Belarus is also launching biometric ID cards, with a test of 800 cards expected to begin soon. Australia’s plans to provide digital identity for government service access are variously bogging down and advancing, with a proposed system of generating physical copies of driver’s licenses from mobile digital credentials mercifully put to rest in NSW and the federal government seeking information from potential vendors for a digital visa system.
‘Father of Global Entry’ John Wagner, who until recently was the Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner of U.S Customs and Border Protection, has launched a new consulting venture, according to G2Xchange. With touchless, single-token travel processes based on biometrics on the agenda in so many places, his expertise will be in high demand.
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to drive digital identity efforts in several different sectors, and apps utilizing facial recognition for the aviation and tourism industries involving Yoti, the Commons Project Foundation and the World Economic Forum, and Onfido have been rolled out recently, along with a smartphone camera-based biometric rapid testing app from Safen Labs.
Several carmakers have announced biometric features in new models, while Syngrafii is addressing the auto sales industry and Chinese electric vehicle-maker Nio has partnered with Cerence to do so. Little wonder, with the automotive biometrics market forecast to grow at over 13 percent a year to pass $1.5 billion by 2025.
The pandemic will take a 22 percent bite out of fingerprint biometrics revenues this year, according to a new research report, but will bounce back strongly in 2021. ABI Research expects the market to reach $40 billion by 2025, with more touchless technology, on balance.
The unique opportunity for banks to take the lead in digital identity remains, according to the Mobey Forum. Payment cards involve ID, and are already accepted around the world, and the industry already has a history of handling sensitive data without overly involving governments.
Acuant VP of Engineering Glenn Larson writes in a Forbes Technology Council post that as cash use diminishes, the need for identity-based digital trust grows. Larson believes new verification systems need to be created for the online world, and that education efforts in the area should be ramped up.
A blog post from buguroo recasts the old stereotype of the bank robbery, and the person attempting to pull it off, in more realistic terms that are explored in the sub-discipline of “cybercriminology.” Cyber-cops are going to have to adapt rapidly to different norms and values of the digital world to catch the new kinds of robbers who inhabit it.
NIST has published a new leaderboard for its facial recognition accuracy with masked faces test, and also published a new FRVT 1:1 Verification report. The new FRVT is the first requiring CentOS compiling, but both leaderboards look broadly similar to the previous versions.
Facial recognition is among the technologies that have been identified by the EU as potential risks for being implemented in rights-violating surveillance systems after they have been acquired for a different stated purpose. New restrictions are therefore being placed on exports of the technology.
Balancing privacy and transparency was already a fraught challenge for law enforcement agencies around the world before mountains of video started accumulating from cameras placed in officers’ cars and on their bodies. Portland, Ohio Sgt. Jason Druckenmiller tells Biometric Update in an interview about how his department addressed this challenge with automated video redaction technology from Veritone.
An encryption technique developed by Trueface and presented at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) allows face biometric templates to be embedded in QR codes and almost anything else, the company says. CEO Shaun Moore and CTO Nezare Chafni explain to Biometric Update how ‘Faces on Everything’ works and what it could be used for.
An awareness-raising web page and interactive facial recognition tool called Erase Your Face lets people experiment with how erasing different parts of a facial image affects a facial recognition algorithm. Information and editorial are mixed in this product of YR Media and Stanford d.school’s K12 Lab.
Genetec has launched a podcast with an interview of former Privacy and Information Commissioner for Ontario Dr. Ann Cavoukian and Genetec President Pierre Racz. They discuss privacy in the context of 2020’s global health crisis and widespread protests.
A panel on bias in AI at the recent BlackTechFest conference attempted to define the problem, its factors beyond training dataset balance, and what to do about it, diginomica reports. Panelists ask why some seem to want to ditch technology, rather than fix it, and consider the opportunities for beneficial AI.
Centrify Cybersecurity Evangelist Andy Smith writes in a Biometric Update guest post that the use of VPNs to establish connections outside of the company network to support work from home stretches them beyond their original use and most secure application. The granular control provided by modern privileged access management solutions is more appropriate for securing remote workforces, Smith contends.
Revelation 13:16-17 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Night Watchman Note; We are to ‘be watchful’ in helping to understand today’s events as related to biblical prophecy. That is what ‘watchmen or women’ do. Jesus made clear that when He actually does come for His disciples, His wise and faithful servants would be aware of the time because they would be watching. They would know the season of the times by WATCHING those things ‘coming to pass or occurring’ as Jesus said they would. The ‘BENCHMARK SIGN(s)’ always point towards Israel / Jacob. God’s prophetic timepiece. The FALSE PEACE COVENANT confirmed by the Prince/Beast among MENA (the many) is the ‘key sign’ of the times or the season of the times. Yes, we are in that period. The Prince/Beast will likely confirm and enhance the current ‘normalization’ agreement with Jacob to be a ‘peace’ agreement, to be extended to 7 years from the current 5 years, to include some agreement permitting the rebuilding of the third temple in exchange for ‘some portion of Jerusalem.’ The current ‘investment’ period for the Palestinians stands at five (5) years. This will likely occur AFTER the Bride, Disciples or True Church is removed from the earth via the Rapture / Harpazo / Redemption / ‘Twinkling’.
Seven (7) References to ‘BE WATCHING or WATCHFUL.’
Matthew 24:42; Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
Matthew 25:13; Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.
Mark 13:35; Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning.
Luke 21:36; Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man
Luke 12:37-39; Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4; For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. (Be Watching).
John 13:19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
John 14:29 And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
Luke 21:31 So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.
Mark 13:29 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:
‘Increasing Like Labor Pains.’ ‘Fearful Sights.’ ‘Perilous Times.’ ‘Men’s hearts failing with fear.’ Great Convergence of Signs.’ REDEMPTION IMMINENT.
In His Service,
Night Watchman
Paul Rolland
Night Watchman Ministries
Make Your Decision for Christ NOW!!!!!!! Time is Up!!!!!!!
Jesus Christ’s Offer of Salvation:
The ABCs of Salvation through Jesus Christ (the Lamb)
A. Admit/Acknowledge/Accept that you are sinner. Ask God’s forgiveness and repent of your sins.
. . . “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23).
. . . “As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.” (Romans 3:10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” (1 John 1:8).
B. Believe Jesus is Lord. Believe that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be; that He was both fully God and fully man and that we are saved through His death, burial, and resurrection. Put your trust in Him as your only hope of salvation. Become a son or daughter of God by receiving Christ.
. . . “That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:15-17). For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13).
C. Call upon His name, Confess with your heart and with your lips that Jesus is your Lord and Savior.
. . . “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” (Romans 10:9-10).
. . . “If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.” (John 1:8-10).
. . . “And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world. (John 2:2).
. . . “In this was manifested the love of god toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.” (1 John 4:9, 14-15).
. . . “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.” (Romans 5:8-10).
. . . “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23).
. . . “Jesus saith unto them, I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6).
. . . “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth.” (Romans 1:16).
. . . “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts: 4:12).
. . . “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth for there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 2:4-6).
. . . “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9).
. . . “But as many as received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.” (John 1:12).
True Church / Bride of Christ Spared from God’s Wrath:
Romans 5:8-10. “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.”
Romans 12:19. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 1:10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
1 Thessalonians 5:9. For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
Romans 8:35. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Jeremiah 30:7. Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.
Revelation 3:10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.