Fingerprint. Biometrics at school. Biometrics and privacy: Let your body be your key. Passwords have been essential to the security of our personal information as well as that of large corporations. Now, groundbreaking technologies are striving to transform our bodies into the definitive guardians of our personal data. Will they succeed? From Facebook to bank accounts, we rely on passwords for almost every type of service we use, but it's becoming increasingly hard to maintain and protect them all. Now innovative technologies are attempting to turn our bodies and even our behaviour into the ultimate protectors of our personal data. Will they succeed where countless others have failed? Passwords are the main way we identify ourselves online. The problem with passwords Passwords are not new. This security model, based on a username and single password, has proved to be lacking. This is just half the story. Security experts tend to agree that passwords have many more drawbacks than advantages.
Us as passwords It's all in the eyes Three-factor security Are passwords dead? Politician's fingerprint 'cloned from photos' by hacker. A member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hacker network claims to have cloned a thumbprint of a German politician by using commercial software and images taken at a news conference. Jan Krissler says he replicated the fingerprint of defence minister Ursula von der Leyen using pictures taken with a "standard photo camera".
Mr Krissler had no physical print from Ms von der Leyen. Fingerprint biometrics are already considered insecure, experts say. Mr Krissler, also known as Starbug, was speaking at a convention for members of the CCC, a 31-year-old network that claims to be "Europe's largest association" of hackers. 'Wear gloves' He told the audience he had obtained a close-up of a photo of Ms von der Leyen's thumb and had also used other pictures taken at different angles during a press event that the minister had spoken at in October.
Mr Krissler has suggested that "politicians will presumably wear gloves when talking in public" after hearing about his research. Living biometrics. Watch XFINITY Videos Online | Featured | Comcast | Watch XFINITY Videos Online. Privacy & EDiscovery. Pin It In a recent article, published by the Huffington Post, Isabelle Falque Perrotin, the President of the CNIL * , summarizes the findings of a study that the CNIL had commissioned on the use of photos in social media. The study was conducted by TNS Sofres on a national sample of 1554 people age thirteen and up. The CNIL had commissioned the study in light of the explosion of photo sharing on social media in recent years. For example, every day, more than 300 million photos are shared on Facebook alone. In conjunction with the development of facial recognition technologies and the searchabilty of online pictures, the stakes for privacy are high.
Here are some interesting numbers: These numbers lead the CNIL to conclude that, in the absence of a clear understanding by the users of the parameters for the use of their pictures, the responsibility for the protection of privacy should not only lie with the user, but also with the platforms that publish those pictures. Some tips:
UAE holds world’s largest biometric database. Abu Dhabi: The UAE holds the largest biometric database in the world, the Emirates Identity Authority has announced. The population register of Emirates ID has over 103 million digital fingerprints and over 15 million digital facial recognition records, which includes multiple records of each UAE resident, and digital signatures as of October 11, senior officials said. This biometric database is considered to be the largest in the world, according to a statement issued by the authority. Dr. Ali Al Khoury, Director General of Emirates ID, said the authority has submitted an official application to the World Record Academy to recognise this record.
Asked about the confirmation of the authority’s claims about the world record, an official spokesman of the authority told Gulf News on Sunday: “We have made worldwide surveys and enquiries with the similar official authorities and agencies of the world governments holding such databases and confirmed that our database is the largest. Dr. From Fingerprints to DNA: Biometric Data Collection in U.S. Immigrant Communities and Beyond. Biometrics at US Borders.
Wearable cameras. Read iris. MPs flag privacy concerns in Freedoms Bill. Biometrics in workplace. Bit.ly | Basic | a simple URL shortener. Fly With Dignity | To Protect Our Amendment Rights, to Maintain our Privacy, To Provide For the Common Good. Hi-tech eye scanners that track passengers in airport go on trial in UK. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 10:30 GMT, 16 November 2010 Passengers will have their eyes scanned as soon as they check in as part of a new trial a major UK airport. High-tech machines that can recognise an individual's iris as they walk around will be installed at Manchester Airport at check in during the government-backed pilot. The technology has the potential to overhaul security and customs, with airport bosses hoping it could help in the fight against terrorism.
The biometrics system undergoes testing at Manchester Airport. It is able to identify people as they move from their irises Passengers who agree to take part will have their iris scanned at check in and it will then be used to identify them as they enter the security search area when it is scanned again. Volunteers for the scheme are asked to walk through a demonstration scanner, at the end of a 5 metre-long walkway, at a normal pace. Passengers at Terminal One. No hiding place - facial biometrics will ID you, RSN.
High performance access to file storage There’s going to be some fallout, if you ask me. Here’s why: You have no control over what pictures of you other people post on the Internet. Suppose there’s a picture of me in a mosque somewhere or coming out of the Social Workers’ Party bring ‘n buy sale or heading in to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. I believe these things are private matters, so I can resolve not to mention them on my blog, not to post pictures of me in mosques, perhaps I might even be able to persuade my friends not to post any pictures of me at prayer, carrying a Lenin lampshade or on the scales. But someone I don't know, and who doesn't know me, takes a picture that has me in it and posts in on the web somewhere.
Meanwhile, someone has set their spider off crawling the Internet. Now, some people would argue that there are legitimate reasons for wanting this kind of system. Remember those distributed tasks that we used to download as screensavers? Iris Scanners Create the Most Secure City in the World. Welcome, Big Brother. We've all seen and obsessively referenced Minority Report, Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K.
Dick's dystopian future, where the public is tracked everywhere they go, from shopping malls to work to mass transit to the privacy of their own homes. The technology is here. I've seen it myself. It's seen me, too, and scanned my irises. Biometrics R&D firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) announced today that it is rolling out its iris scanning technology to create what it calls "the most secure city in the world. " "In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your medical records pulled up, everything will come off that unique key that is your iris," says Jeff Carter, CDO of Global Rainmakers.
Leon is the first step. When these residents catch a train or bus, or take out money from an ATM, they will scan their irises, rather than swiping a metro or bank card. One potential benefit? Aussie kids can defeat fingerprint scanners with Gummi Bears. ‘Paspoortbiometrie is mensenrechtenschending’ Een collectieve mensenrechtenschending. Zo noemt WRR-onderzoeker Vincent Böhre de verplichting aan burgers om hun vingerafdrukken af te staan om een paspoort te krijgen, zodat deze later kunnen worden gebruikt voor opsporing en vervolging. Ook de hele besluitvorming rond paspoortbiometrie in Nederland vindt in zijn ogen weinig genade. Hij schetste een beeld van een stuitend gebrek aan openbaarheid en verantwoording. MensenrechtenVincent Böhre (31), afgestudeerd in internationaal recht en Nederlands recht, heeft zich altijd zorgen gemaakt om de mensenrechten, zegt hij. Zijn werk, tot vorig jaar was hij beleidsmedewerker bij Amnesty International, getuigt daarvan, evenals zijn activiteiten voor het Nederlands Juristen Comité voor de Mensenrechten.
Nauwelijks controleHet hevigst trof hem het gebrek aan openbaarheid van informatie. Mooier voorgesteldSpin in het paspoortweb is het BZK-agentschap Basisadministratie Persoonsgegevens en Reisdocumenten (BPR). Peter Mom. Highest Court in the European Union To Rule On Biometrics Privacy. Courts are investigating the legality of a European Union regulation requiring biometric passports in Europe. Last month, the Dutch Council of State (Raad van State, the highest Dutch administrative court) asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to decide if the regulation requiring fingerprints in passports and travel documents violates citizens’ right to privacy. The case entered the courts when three Dutch citizens were denied passports and another citizen was denied an ID card for refusing to provide their fingerprints.
The ECJ ruling will play an important role in determining the legality of including biometrics in passports and travel documents in the European Union. The Dutch Council referred the question of legality the ECJ, arguing that the restrictions on privacy do not outweigh the ostensible aim of fraud prevention, and questioning the RFID technique. The Netherlands has mandated fingerprints in passports and ID-cards since 2009. Mr. Resources: Israel launches biometric airline security system. By Paul Goldman, NBC News Producer TEL AVIV – Israel's Ben Gurion Airport launched a new biometric security system for outbound airline passengers Tuesday, less than two weeks after the failed Christmas Day bombing of a flight bound for Detroit. Officials said the timing was purely coincidental. The new system, called UNIPASS, is located at the entrance to the arrival terminal at Ben Gurion and is designed to enable passengers to perform the security check themselves.
While that may sound alarming at first blush, officials I met at the airport Wednesday assured me that the new technology is by no means a sign of them letting down their guard. On the contrary, they said, it will make one of the most secure air systems in the world even stronger. Anyone who has passed through Ben Gurion airport in the past would clearly remember the grueling questions and the careful hand-checking of their luggage. The new system is expected to streamline the process. The State of Israel and the Biometric Database Law: Political Centrism and the Post-Democratic State - The Israel Democracy Institute. "[T]he state," wrote Aristotle in his Politics, "is by nature clearly prior to the family and to the individual, since the whole is of necessity prior to the part; for example, if the whole body be destroyed, there will be no foot or hand, except in an equivocal sense, as we might speak of a stone hand...
"1 NoteAristotle, Politics, Book I, Part II, Mark 1253a: See Aristotle, Politics, trans. Benjamin Jowett (NY: Dover Publications, 2000) or online version. In Aristotle's "whole body" metaphor, the state, like the individual person, is a whole composed of various parts—the group of people who reside in it, the polis. If, as Aristotle maintains, "man is by nature a political animal," a person must therefore belong to a political framework of some kind: "[H]e who by nature and not by mere accident is without a state, is either a bad man or above humanity...
"2 But what happens when the state itself insists on dismantling the citizen's whole body into its component parts? Around the World.