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A U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, officer assist a passenger with ticket scanning and taking biometric facial recognition photos prior to boarding a flight at Houston International Airport on February 12, 2018. ..Photographer: Donna Burton
PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan-Patrolman Safidulla, an Afghanistan National Police officer from the Kuh-e Safi district, gets his biometrics put into a handheld interagency identity detection equipment database by 4th Platoon, Company B, Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division Soldiers, at Dandar Patrol Base in Parwan, Afghanistan, Sept. 30. The system uses fingerprints, iris imaging and facial recognition technology and is similar to security measures for U.S. servicemembers and government employees obtaining work in their field. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. William E. Henry, Task Force Cyclon Public Affairs)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”. Other witnesses are Mr. Peter Mina, Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Dr. Charles Romine, Director of the Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Over the past year, with the generous support of Innovation Norway, UN Women has been assessing the potential of leveraging blockchain technologies to address challenges faced by women and girls in humanitarian settings.
As part of this work, UN Women, in partnership with the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN OICT) hosts a four-day Simulation Lab from January 29 to February 1, 2018 at the UN Women New York Headquarters.
This Lab enables UN Women to explore, in collaboration with the private sector, cutting-edge solutions that hold potential for closing gender gaps in humanitarian action.
Based on the results of the Lab, four to five solution providers will be invited to submit a request for proposal (RFP). UN Women intends to pilot two to four solutions in the eld in collaboration with its UN and private sector partners and with the support of Innovation Norway, with the intention to thereafter upscale the most successful solutions as part of UN Women’s Global Flagship Programmes for Disaster Risk Reduction (Gender Inequality of Risk) and Crisis Response and Recovery (LEAP-Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection).
Pictured: Jamie Green, New Venture Manager at the WFP Innovation Accelerator, World Food Programme
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/2/news-event-blockch...
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
Over the past year, with the generous support of Innovation Norway, UN Women has been assessing the potential of leveraging blockchain technologies to address challenges faced by women and girls in humanitarian settings.
As part of this work, UN Women, in partnership with the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN OICT) hosts a four-day Simulation Lab from January 29 to February 1, 2018 at the UN Women New York Headquarters.
This Lab enables UN Women to explore, in collaboration with the private sector, cutting-edge solutions that hold potential for closing gender gaps in humanitarian action.
Based on the results of the Lab, four to five solution providers will be invited to submit a request for proposal (RFP). UN Women intends to pilot two to four solutions in the eld in collaboration with its UN and private sector partners and with the support of Innovation Norway, with the intention to thereafter upscale the most successful solutions as part of UN Women’s Global Flagship Programmes for Disaster Risk Reduction (Gender Inequality of Risk) and Crisis Response and Recovery (LEAP-Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection).
Pictured: Atefeh Riazi, Assistant Secretary-General, Office of Information and Communications Technology, United Nations Department of Management
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/2/news-event-blockch...
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”.
Photographer: Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”. Other witnesses are Mr. Peter Mina, Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Dr. Charles Romine, Director of the Information Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Photographer: Donna Burton
TUCSON, Ariz. – Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents from the Nogales and Tucson Stations arrested four Mexican nationals who were previously convicted for felonies in the United States and Mexico. On October 13, 2017, Nogales agents arrested Marcos Cruz-Castro, 21, after he illegally entered the country near Nogales, Arizona. During processing, agents discovered Cruz was convicted in Wisconsin on felony charges of exposing a child to harmful materials, and misdemeanor charges of sexual assault. Agents arrested Jose Burrola-Pliego, 40, after he entered the country illegally near Nogales. Agents conducted a records check on Burrola and learned he was incarcerated in Mexico following a murder conviction in 2011. He had also served time in the United States for extensive immigration violations. On Sunday afternoon, Nogales agents arrested Luis Vargas-Vargas, 26, shortly after he illegally entered the United States. A subsequent records check indicated Vargas was convicted on two counts of felony sexual conduct with a minor in Phoenix in 2013. Early Monday, Tucson Station agents working near Sasabe, Arizona arrested Aloberto Hernandez-Ortiz, 44, for being in the U.S. illegally. When agents conducted a records check on his fingerprints, they found Hernandez was convicted for murder in Florida and was removed from the U.S. in 2014. All four men are currently in custody awaiting a disposition on felony criminal immigration violations. All individuals apprehended by the Border Patrol undergo criminal history checks using biometrics to ensure illegal immigrants with criminal histories are positively identified.
Photo provided by: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
The Radical Hospital
Cutting-edge surgical spider robots, augmented reality guided clinical applications, RFID biometric-tracked patients, physiological monitoring, artificial intelligence—just a few of the radical technologies making their way into our hospitals. Hear first-hand how these innovations are changing the way medicine is practiced and how they are saving money and saving lives. Speakers include: Shiv Gaglani, Editor / Curator, Medgadget / Smartphone Physical, Dr. Gary Clawson, Senior Director, Global Professional Education, Masimo, Jason Mendenhall, Executive Vice President of Cloud, Switch SUPERNAP, Stephen Pierce, Medical Devices Leader, IBM, and Orlando Portale, Chief Innovation Officer, Palomar Health.
Moderator: Shiv Gaglani, @ShivGaglani, Editor / Curator, Medgadget / Smartphone Physical, @Medgadget
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Dr. Gary Clawson, Senior Director, Global Professional Education, Masimo, @MasimoInnovates
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Jason Mendenhall, @jasonmendenhall, Executive Vice President of Cloud, Switch SUPERNAP, @SUPERNAP
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Stephen Pierce, @spierceibm, Medical Devices Leader, IBM, @IBM
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Orlando Portale, Chief Innovation Officer, Palomar Health, @glassomics
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Delta Air Lines reveals their new biometric face-detection technology at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Ga. on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. (Photo by Chris Rank, Rank Studios 2018)
Over the past year, with the generous support of Innovation Norway, UN Women has been assessing the potential of leveraging blockchain technologies to address challenges faced by women and girls in humanitarian settings.
As part of this work, UN Women, in partnership with the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN OICT) hosts a four-day Simulation Lab from January 29 to February 1, 2018 at the UN Women New York Headquarters.
This Lab enables UN Women to explore, in collaboration with the private sector, cutting-edge solutions that hold potential for closing gender gaps in humanitarian action.
Based on the results of the Lab, four to five solution providers will be invited to submit a request for proposal (RFP). UN Women intends to pilot two to four solutions in the eld in collaboration with its UN and private sector partners and with the support of Innovation Norway, with the intention to thereafter upscale the most successful solutions as part of UN Women’s Global Flagship Programmes for Disaster Risk Reduction (Gender Inequality of Risk) and Crisis Response and Recovery (LEAP-Women’s Leadership, Empowerment, Access and Protection).
Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2018/2/news-event-blockch...
Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown
A VeriScan facial recognition tablet takes a photo of a passenger boarding an international flight during a press event announcing ithe next phase of CBP's use of biometrics at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., Sept. 6, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Glenn Fawcett
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”.
Photographer: Donna Burton
From left, John Wagner, deputy assistant commissioner of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Office of Field Operations; Anh Duong, director of Border and Maritime Division of Homeland Security's Advanced Research Projects Agency; Craig Healy, assistant director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's National Security Investigations Division; and Rebecca Gambler,director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues of the U.S. Government Accountability Office, deliver testimony about the unimplemented biometric exit tracking system before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2016. (CBP Photo by Glenn Fawcett)
Delta Air Lines reveals their new biometric face-detection technology at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Ga. on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. (Photo by Chris Rank, Rank Studios 2018)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”. Seen here is Mr. Peter Mina, Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Photographer: Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”. Seen here with Witness Peter Mina, Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance-OCRCL, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Photographer: Donna Burton
published this morning, trying to stop Israel's parliament from doing something really stupid, and really dangerous.
Delta Air Lines reveals their new biometric face-detection technology at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Ga. on Wednesday, October 17, 2018. (Photo by Chris Rank, Rank Studios 2018)
(Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. Transmitting in the kilohertz, megahertz and gigahertz ranges, tags may be battery-powered or derive their power from the RF waves coming from the reader.
Like bar codes, RFID tags identify items. However, unlike bar codes, which must be in close proximity and line of sight to the scanner for reading, RFID tags do not require line of sight and can be embedded within packages. Depending on the type of tag and application, they can be read at a varying range of distances. In addition, RFID-tagged cartons rolling on a conveyer belt can be read many times faster than bar-coded boxes.
Source: www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=RFID&gwp=13 (more info here too)
If you want to be paranoid about the security implications of this go here: www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/renew_your_pass.html and here: www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/04/cloning_epassports/
From a while back, but recent conversations of biometric passports and fancy airport security made me think of this hi-tech system I encountered during a period of heightened alerts.
1. It makes you wonder why the management didn't organise something like this to be manufactured properly, considering how serious a job it was supposed to be doing.
2. It makes you wonder what sort of clever little tinkerer took the initiative to make this in their own time with some left over MDF they had at home.
I'd give them a job over their managers any day.
I'd like also to think that they enjoyed the alliteration in 'baggage gauge'.
Bag-gage-gauge. Baa-gage-gage. B'gagegage.
If you flip to the middle of my passport (at least since I got pages added in Singapore), you flip from a normal old passport into new biometric passport pages. Looks kind of odd and so far, at least the Indonesian border guard pointed at it and laughed. Good old USA!
I think it makes my passport have a kind of fake quality about it. They don't even put a raised seal in the new passport extensions, although on page B, I got a "visa sticker" that says "This passport was amended 24-jul-2007 to add additional pages."
International Red Cross focus group for Biometrics study. Held at UC Berkeley Oct 28, 2015 with students who have had experience with and/or an interest in Biometric testing.
Photography by: Mark Butler/American Red Cross
032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Property holders are on the lookout for security guarding professionals almost always since crimes now occupy a better part of society. Although security guards were the only option to take resort to earlier, a series of options are now available.
032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration.
Photographer: Donna Burton
BIO-EXEMPT
Zach Blas
Official literature on biometrics from the UK Home Office defines bio-exempt as those not required to submit biometric data to the government, and specifies that children, amputees with one or no fingers, and diplomats are bio-exempt. The UK Home Office also described bio-exempt as ‘exempt from control.’ In his performative lecture Zach Blas will attempt to understand ‘bio-exempt’ as a paradigmatic descriptor for today's global security regime. Bio-exemption is a mode of biopolitical control: who has the legal right to be exempt from their embodied self and who has the right to remain unmarked, not indexed.
From left to right: Venilla John, SASSA; Chris Newland, Grindrod Bank; Michael Miebach, MasterCard; Andrew Turpin, Grindrod Bank; Ann Cairns, MasterCard; Philip Panaino, MasterCard; Virginia Petersen, SASSA; Nanda Pillay, NET1 UEPS Technologies; Raphaahle Ramokgopa, SASSA; Dr. Serge Belamant, NET1 UEPS Technologies; Frank Earl, SASSA; Paseka Letsatsi, SASSA; Dianne Dunkerley, SASSA; and Anja Lewington, NET1 UEPS Technologies. The group were celebrating the milestone of reaching 10 million active SASSA Debit MasterCard cards at an event in Pretoria, South Africa, on 20 August 2013.
Ophrys fusca, O. lupercalis, O. forestieri, O. malacitana
“A la primera d’una sèrie prevista de publicacions, s’aplica l’anàlisi biomètric a dos temes controvertits dins de la secció Pseudophrys del gènere Ophrys. Les afinitats d’Ophrys fusca s.s. dels voltants de Lisboa (Portugal) amb les O. lupercalis polinitzades per Andrena nigroaena (O. “nigroaena-fusca”) i amb les plantes polinitzades per Colletes cunicularius de la provincia de Málaga, conegudes fins ara amb el nom de treball O. “colletes-fusca”, han estat llargament qüestionades. Anàlisis biomètrics de les tres entitats indiquen que hi ha tres espècies. Les plantes de Málaga es descriuen com a Ophrys malacitana. En segon lloc, seguint la designació d’un lectotipus per el nom O. forestieri del material original recollit per Forestier a L’Escaladieu als Pirineus francesos, un anàlisi biomètric de les plantes d’aquesta zona amb plantes conegudes com a O. lupercalis del Sud de França i Est d’España, conclou que son una única espècie. El nom O. forestieri té prioritat i el nom O. lupercalis esdevé un sinònim. Adicionalment, poblacions disjuntes del Nord d’España mostren diferències biomètriques florals, que poden indicar un canvi o variació en el polinitzador, mentre que la població de Mallorca és molt similar a la de l’España continental i a la del Sud de França.”
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Unique ID Card
Biometric data
all 10 fingers prints, Face and eyes (Iris)
see more details here
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Biometric access control system recognises a person by storing unique biological features of people in its system.
A VeriScan facial recognition tablet tells a passenger to proceed to the gate after taking a photo in the next phase of CBP's use of biometrics at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., Sept. 6, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Glenn Fawcett
More than 3.7 million South African Social Security Agency (“SASSA”) MasterCard debit cards have been issued to social grant recipients across South Africa, with biometric functionality.
Employees with VeriScan make final tweaks to their biometrics device prior to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivering remarks during a press event announcing the implementation of facial recognition systems at Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Va., Sept. 6, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Glenn Fawcett
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Finger scanner to keep track of students
"... A spokesman for the department says the software complies with the department's confidentiality and privacy codes, and does not record fingerprint images. ..."
This statement is a bit deceptive because no images are stored but a binary fingerprint is stored somewhere. Enough to identify each individual for the process to work. Using fingerprints for students is also open to attack [0]. Iris-scans would be harder to tamper with and a lot cooler. Probably a bit too cool for mere school students. And of course the obvious question. Has any asked why a roll call with teacher, pen & paper doesn't work?
a bit later...
@Bioauthenticator "... These systems are safe, secure and private. ..."
Spoken like a vendor.
Safe
In what sense? You don't cut your finger when you use them? Or safe in that nobody else can gain access to the biometric data and mis-use it later on?
Secure
Spend enough money and you might get hardware that is difficult to spoof. But we know how tight the budget is in NSW at the moment. [1] Is it connected to outside systems or applications? How is the data transported? You can secure systems but it's not a one off cost.
Private
Any system that stores digital information by nature can be exported, retrieved. What is to say at some time in the future all data taken (biometric and collected) at these schools are distributed to other government departments. Is there anything technically stopping biometric information being stored with CrimTrac [2] for instance? What about attendance at school stored with Human Services to work out why students might not be attending school or at Centrelink for future profiling purposes?
This isn't a technology problem. It's a rights problem. identifying data is being collected for questionable reasons with the potential for abuse. No justifiable reason is reported.
Reference
[0] itechnews, "How To: Hack a Fingerprint Scanner: MythBusters of Discovery Channel shows us how to hack a fingerprint scanner. Can a photocopy of fingerprint work?"
[Accessed Friday, 13th November 2009]
www.itechnews.net/2007/04/23/how-to-hack-a-fingerprint-sc...
[1] news.smh.com.au, AAP (reporter uncredited), "NSW budget to plunge into bigger deficit"
[Accessed Friday, 13th November 2009]
news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/nsw-budget-to-plun...
[2] computerworld.com, Michael Crawford, "Australian state police eye fingerprint biometrics"
[Accessed Friday, 13th November 2009]
www.computerworld.com/s/article/105427/Australian_state_p...
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032816: Office of Field Operations, San Diego - U.S. Customs and Border Protection launched a biometric border entry and exit control pilot program at Otay Mesa, San Diego in an effort to identify and apprehend foreigners with expired visas who have surpassed their permitted duration. Travelers cross over bridge walkway leading to a CBP Biometric Station where travelers will be processed through quick and secure Ready Lanes for travel into Mexico.
Photographer: Donna Burton
North Kivu, DRC, April 2015 - Biometric fingerprinting for food distributions. Photo: OCHA/Nadia Berger.
(Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. Transmitting in the kilohertz, megahertz and gigahertz ranges, tags may be battery-powered or derive their power from the RF waves coming from the reader.
Like bar codes, RFID tags identify items. However, unlike bar codes, which must be in close proximity and line of sight to the scanner for reading, RFID tags do not require line of sight and can be embedded within packages. Depending on the type of tag and application, they can be read at a varying range of distances. In addition, RFID-tagged cartons rolling on a conveyer belt can be read many times faster than bar-coded boxes.
Source: www.answers.com/main/ntquery?s=RFID&gwp=13 (more info here too)
If you want to be paranoid about the security implications of this go here: www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/renew_your_pass.html and here: www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/04/cloning_epassports/
BIO-EXEMPT
10:30 - 12:00Zach Blas
Official literature on biometrics from the UK Home Office defines bio-exempt as those not required to submit biometric data to the government, and specifies that children, amputees with one or no fingers, and diplomats are bio-exempt. The UK Home Office also described bio-exempt as ‘exempt from control.’ In his performative lecture Zach Blas will attempt to understand ‘bio-exempt’ as a paradigmatic descriptor for today's global security regime. Bio-exemption is a mode of biopolitical control: who has the legal right to be exempt from their embodied self and who has the right to remain unmarked, not indexed.
Delta Air Lines reveals their new biometric scanning technology at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Ga. on Monday, November 19, 2018. (Photo by John Paul Van Wert/Rank Studios 2018)
Biometrics
The mission of the Jacksonville Port Authority’s Wellness Committee is to empower employees by contributing and supporting their health, well-being and mental fitness through education, participation and physical resources.
The Jacksonville Port Authority has about 150 employees; however, the private sector customers and tenants who use Port Authority seaport terminals employ thousands of workers. According to economic impact studies, the combined direct, indirect and induced impact of the maritime industries in the Jacksonville area account for more than 65,000 jobs.
Marine industry jobs include import/export companies, container services, dredging and marine construction companies, freight forwarders, custom brokers, rail carriers, ship chandlers, stevedores, towing and barge services and trucking companies among others. Together these companies generate a tremendous economic impact on Florida's First Coast.
Photo credit: JAXPORT, Meredith Fordham Hughes