By Tyler Durden Whatever happened to the WEF? One minute they were everywhere in the media and now they have all but disappeared from public...
Cashless Society: WEF Boasts That 98% Of Central Banks Are Adopting CBDCs
By Ad Washbro DINKs may be all the rage on the trendsetting Chinese propaganda app TikTok, but have you heard about LINKs: Leftist Ideology, No...
By Masha Borak Debates continue among British lawmakers on the legality of police deployment of live facial recognition. After the UK Parliament’s Justice and Home...
UK government rejects calls for clearer facial recognition laws
By Masha Borak Many of us are already talking to our smart devices as if they are humans. In the future, smart devices may be...
Activist Post Editor’s Note: This should make it clear that AI robot police will not be used only for the most serious crimes, as governments...
By Masha Borak The risks of generative artificial intelligence are looming over the financial services industry. As access to more advanced AI tools becomes available,...
AI fraud may be too much for some financial companies, warns Treasury Dept
By Ad Washbro How well do you trust the mainstream media? GWU! asked its readers in a random controlled study. QUESTIONING THE TV ACTORS: You...
By Tyler Durden In a case with chilling implications for 1st Amendment press protections, a DC Judge has fined acclaimed Journalist Catherine Herridge $800 per...
By Masha Borak Payments giant Visa showcased its pay-by-palm biometric payment technology at an event marking the transformation of its Singapore Innovation Center last week....
By Masha Borak Germany’s digital ID may come under threat from malicious attackers, according to an analysis from a digital security expert. A white hat...
White Hat Hacker Reveals Vulnerability in Germany’s Digital ID
By Masha Borak Facial recognition is entering New Zealand’s grocery stores and the rapid expansion of the technology has been filling the country’s newspaper headlines....
New Zealand Grocery Stores Adding Facial Recognition, Police Want Open Discussion
By Jim Nash With almost no explanation, a high school in the U.S. state of Maine reportedly has backed out of a biometric identification contract....
One US School Backs Out of Biometrics Contract, Another is Going Big
By Masha Borak Belize is moving towards building its national identification system and formulating a strategy for biometric data with future plans for digitizing public...
Belize to Kick Off National ID and Biometric Data Strategy as Soon as March
By Masha Borak As facial recognition surveillance spreads, researchers and privacy-minded individuals have been trying to come up with ways to thwart the technology, using...
A New Way to Thwart Facial Recognition Targets Surveillance Camera Sensors
By Jim Nash Those who see face surveillance by law enforcement as a danger to civil rights keep hoping that their warnings will stir the...
Ireland Shows How Police can Ignore Biometric Privacy Concerns and Promises
By Jim Nash Three school systems, two in the U.S. and the other in Brazil are installing or updating biometric security system for students. The...
By Jim Nash It’s put up or shut up time for biometric software companies and public researchers claiming they can detect deepfake voices. Someone sent...
Deepfake Voice Attacks are Here to Put Detection to the Real-world Test
By The Conversation How many people don’t have a bank account? And just how difficult has it become to live without one? These questions are...
‘No cash accepted’ Signs are Bad News for Millions of Americans
By Jim Nash Another couple U.S. states are considering the benefits of digital identification. New Mexico legislators, with the encouragement of the state’s motor vehicle...
Via SchiffGold.com, In the last few decades, there has been a global shift towards a “cashless world,” a trend that continues to shape financial autonomy....
By Masha Borak Keystroke dynamics, a biometric template that identifies individuals based on their typing, has been tempting researchers as an easy way to verify...
By Masha Borak Police in the UK have been using the country’s passport holder database to conduct facial recognition searches without public disclosure, a new...
UK Police Have Been Secretly Using Passport Database for Facial Recognition for 3 Years
Authored by Nick Corbishley via NakedCapitalism.com, 2022: The Year That Many Brits Learnt to Love Cash Again However it may seem, the title of this...
By Masha Borak Police in the UK have been ramping up the use of facial recognition technology with plans for further rollouts in 2024, sparking...
By Masha Borak The United Nations’ travel surveillance system, which collects biometric data to track down terrorists, should be paused and “urgently reviewed,” according to...
UN’s Counter-terrorist Travel Biometrics Poses Human Rights Risk: Special Rapporteur
By Jim Nash The politics of police facial recognition systems are changing in favor of deployment in Ireland after last week’s riot in Dublin. Proposals...
Facial Recognition by Police Could Come to Ireland Faster after Dublin Riots
By Masha Borak After a private initiative to establish a digital identity was shot down by voters in 2021, Switzerland is opting for a new...
Switzerland Presents National Digital ID, Adoption Expected in 2026
By B.N. Frank If you value your privacy but still send text messages via your car infotainment system, you may want to re-think that. From...
By Masha Borak The police in Scotland have tripled the use of retrospective facial recognition over the last five years jumping from just under 1,300...
Sharp Rise in Facial Recognition Use by Scottish Police, UK Protest Footage Scanned
By Jim Nash A Police Scotland biometric evidence-sharing pilot project has been accused of being not just needlessly risky but of being criminal by Scotland’s...
Watchdog Cries Foul over Scotland Police Biometrics-sharing Pilot Storing Data in US
By Alex Washburne Why have we not discovered intergalactic alien life yet? Enrico Fermi posited that a series of events need to occur for such...
By Jim Nash When U.S. state of New York schools got the OK last week to use biometric systems short of facial recognition, the move...
Biometrics Look Increasingly Likely for Schools Afraid of Gun Attacks
By Masha Borak Indian Railways is planning to install thousands of CCTV cameras equipped with facial recognition across greater Mumbai in an effort to boost...
Mumbai Railways Installing Thousands of Facial Recognition Cameras
By Masha Borak A robot security dog equipped with cameras and facial recognition is about to prowl a sporting venue in the United States. Mercedes-Benz...
Facial Recognition-equipped Robot Dog to Prowl US Sporting Venue
By Gun Owners of America Concluding a years-long lawsuit, US Judge Royce C. Lamberth gave preliminary approval to a settlement agreement due to Washington, D.C.’s...
“An Unconstitutional Set Of Laws” Costs DC $5.1 Million After 2A Violations