‘Mark, Number or Name of the Beast’: Amazon considers palm biometrics for touchless in-store payments, tests terminal transactions with Visa Jan 20, 2020 | Luana Pascu. Biometric Update. Amazon is working on linking users’ hands to credit card information to enable palm biometric payments at checkout terminals, reports the Wall Street Journal. […]
‘Mark, Number or Name of the Beast’: New regulatory enforcement makes 2020 big year for biometrics, execs say Jan 23, 2020 | Chris Burt. Biometric Update. Regulations for authenticating transactions and protecting privacy will continue to evolve in 2020, with companies are gearing up for PSD2’s Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) […]
Biometric Technology, Government Surveillance and Control, ‘Mark, Number, Name’: Explosive Growth: banking, systems, Asian retail and smart tickets Biometrics systems will generate over $65B by 2024, according to new research, with growth in different areas for different regions. Signs are also positive for the industry in banking and […]
Biometric Technology, Government Surveillance and Control: Chinese researchers develop 500MP camera to capture facial biometrics in crowds Biometric Update. 2019 Chinese academic researchers have developed a 500 megapixel cloud camera that can collect detailed facial data in crowded spaces such as stadiums, and enable the biometric detection of […]
Biometric Technology, Government Surveillance: France looks to establish legal framework to deploy biometric video surveillance. Jan 16, 2020 | Luana Pascu. Biometric Update. French officials are looking into a legal framework to deploy public video surveillance embedded with facial recognition technology, writes RFI. Facial recognition technology is already extensively used across […]
Biometric Technology, ‘Mark, Number, Name’: U.S. Dept. Homeland Security Global Entry biometric facial recognition program to expand nationwide. Jan 17, 2020. Biometric Update. The Department of Homeland Security has issued a privacy impact assessment related to biometric facial recognition technology it first rolled out for the Global Entry program in […]
Biometric Technology, ‘Mark, Number, Name’: Mastercard certifies first contactless biometric payment card from Thales and Fingerprint Cards. Jan 17, 2020. Biometric Update. The biometric payment card offered by Thales Group with a Fingerprint Cards sensor has been announced as the first contactless fingerprint payment card certified by Mastercard to its new program […]
What Happens When You Merge AI, Biometric Facial Recognition & Social Credit PNW. January 8, 2020 China wants to give its prisoners (populace) the ability to pay with their faces to ride subways; this will be combined with its social credit program — which already tracks the communist […]
EXPLODING End Times Technology, ‘For Knowledge Shall Be Increased’ (But Not Wisdom), ‘Always learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth.’ ‘Deceived by the means of those false miracles’: 18 (6+6+6) ‘just yesterday’ articles. ALL THIS, Just in Time for Christmas and 2020. Merry Christmas (Keep […]
Increasing Government Control, Repression: Documented; every surveillance camera on the way to work in New York City, and it revealed a dystopian reality. To initial number of cameras estimated to reach over 50 (5) billion worldwide in only two years. Global video-surveillance industry forecast to reach over $60 […]
