#Wise customers are now expected to consent to retention and disclosure to partners of #biometric facial information for up to a year simply to continue using their accounts, and even when not required by local financial regulations.
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About passwords: I looked at the latest stable version, I think you decided to make the #biometric-reauth-password-filling flag non-disable in principle. :) I have not been able to disable it, but in the previous version it was possible. Yes, that's a workaround too. Except that fingerprint protection and other system-wide biometrics are weaker than an extra layer of encryption and asking for a separate password.
The #VietnameseGovernment will begin collecting #biometric information from its citizens for identification purposes beginning in July this year.
Prime minister Pham Minh Chinh instructed the nation's Ministry of Public Security to collect the #data in the form of iris scans, voice samples and actual #DNA, in accordance with amendments to #Vietnam's Law on Citizen Identification.
Bei meinem Google Pixel 8 (#GrapheneOS) habe ich die Entsperrung mittels Fingerabdruck eingerichtet. Fun fact: Meine Tochter kann das Gerät mit ihrem Fingerabdruck entsperren. WTF!?
Blur tools for Signal: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data....
From the end of September, Tinkoff Bank began asking customers for consent to convert their photos into biometric data, which the bank is then required by law to transfer to the Unified Biometric System (UBS), Kommersant reports.
@popsci #Biometric data is not nearly the worst part. You leave your palm print on everything you touch with it. After you've been hacked & you will be hacked, how do you change your palm print? Fingerprint?? Retina???
the fact that "Europe's first ever intelligent video #surveillance system" is installed in a German region governed by the Green party @GrueneBundestag which is supposed to defend civil liberties.
Or the staggering certainty with which the engineer #MarkusMüller at #FraunhoferSociety thinks his surveillance wet dream of unlimited realtime knowledge about public spaces is somehow good.
My translation: "We will limit video #surveillance in public spaces, (...) We will evaluate the use of intelligent video surveillance after the finalisation of the #Mannheim test project. We reject suspicionless automatised #biometric video surveillance."
On the one hand: Super cool technology. Would love to have one and use it as fancy futuristic ssh terminal.
On the other hand:
It lidar+3d cam scans everything around you. It captures all your hand movements. It tracks your eyes, what you are looking at and likely for how long. It measures your pulse.
Having this data while people are browsing the web, online-shopping or using apps and games, is a gold mine and corporate wet dream.
So many people can’t understand why I’m against #biometric#auth for anything beyond convenience. Just think about it though, if any biometric data is stored off-device (and I assure you it is), when (not if) that database full of biometric data gets leaked how do you plan to change your fingerprints? Your face? Your retinas?
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric#surveillance tech.
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Blur tools for Signal: if you take or edit photos of crowds or strangers with Signal, you can use our face blur tool to quickly hide people's biometric face data....
Russian bank Tinkoff to collect biometric data from customers, send to state system — Meduza (meduza.io)
From the end of September, Tinkoff Bank began asking customers for consent to convert their photos into biometric data, which the bank is then required by law to transfer to the Unified Biometric System (UBS), Kommersant reports.