Category: Government Repression Control

Perilous Times, Increasing Government Control, Surveillance and Repression: To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China. Beginning of Sorrows.

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Perilous Times, Increasing Government Control, Surveillance and Repression: To Tame Coronavirus, Mao-Style Social Control Blankets China. Beginning of Sorrows. Despite their high-tech tools, the authorities are mainly relying on a flood of workers to keep hundreds of millions of people from coming in contact with outsiders. NYTimes. February […]

Financial services companies partner up to replace legacy access control with biometrics

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Financial services companies partner up to replace legacy access control with biometrics Feb 13, 2020 | Chris Burt. Biometric Update. Several banks, fintech, and financial services companies have found partners to provide biometric authentication for secure onboarding and transactions, with facial, finger vein, and voice recognition. Santander Argentina has tapped FacePhi and […]

ISO and IEC introduce new international standards for interoperability in biometrics

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ISO and IEC introduce new international standards for interoperability in biometrics Feb 11, 2020 | Luana Pascu. Biometric Update ISO (International Organization for Standardization) has published new international standards to ensure security, compatibility and interoperability of biometric data interchange formats and technology, the organization announced. “We intend to have internationally agreed standards […]

WARTIME STATUS (MARTIAL LAW) DECLARED FOR THE CITY OF BEIJING. Dawu County in Hubei province announces “wartime” lockdown due to coronavirus, bans people from leaving their home.

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WARTIME STATUS (MARTIAL LAW) DECLARED FOR THE CITY OF BEIJING February 13, 2020 by IWB In order to further discipline, compact responsibility, and ensure that all prevention and control work is carried out in an efficient and standardized manner, the Party Committee of the Beijing Centers for Disease Control and […]

Increasing Government Control, Repression and Surveillance: How China Will Use Its Social Credit System to Keep Control Over Its Military

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Increasing Government Control, Repression and Surveillance: How China Will Use Its Social Credit System to Keep Control Over Its Military Meia Nouwens. The National Interest•February 8, 2020 ‘If you’re a soldier in China, applying to leave the army is likely to leave a black mark on your social […]

Increasing Government Control, Surveillance and Repression: US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Is Upgrading to a New Facial Recognition Algorithm in March

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Increasing Government Control, Surveillance and Repression: US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Is Upgrading to a New Facial Recognition Algorithm in March FEBRUARY 7, 2020 11:56 AM ET Nextgov Customs and Border Protection is getting ready to upgrade the underlying algorithm running in its facial recognition technology and […]

Moscow launches live facial biometrics surveillance network called world’s largest

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Moscow launches live facial biometrics surveillance network called world’s largest Jan 31, 2020 | Chris Burt | Biometric Update Video surveillance analytics including biometric facial recognition provided by NtechLab has been launched at scale in Moscow as of the first of January, according to comments by Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported by Lenta.ru. Services provided by […]

Revealing the Beast: Why the Saudi Crown Prince Needs Cyberweapons. It’s hard to overestimate just how much damage Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia has done to his country in the last 15 (5+5+5) months.

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Revelation 17:8-11 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when […]