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#biometrics — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Gizmodo: Sam Altman’s Creepy Eyeball-Scanning Company Gets in Bed With Zoom and Tinder. “On Friday, both Tinder and Zoom announced partnerships with Altman’s World, the company behind the creepy, eyeball-scanning orb that is meant to prove users are human.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/22/gizmodo-sam-altmans-creepy-eyeball-scanning-company-gets-in-bed-with-zoom-and-tinder/
  2. Gizmodo: Sam Altman’s Creepy Orb Startup Has Only Scanned 2 Percent of Its Ideal Number of Eyeballs. “Business Insider notes that, so far, World claims it has scanned about 17.5 million people. Now, I will admit that’s about 17.5 million more people than I would have ever imagined might be interested in Altman’s weird project. Still, the company clearly has a long, long way to go before […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/12/gizmodo-sam-altmans-creepy-orb-startup-has-only-scanned-2-percent-of-its-ideal-number-of-eyeballs/

  3. The Future of Personal Identification: Tongue Print vs Fingerprint
    The use of tongue prints as a biometric identifier is gaining traction, and for good reason. With its superior protection, stability, and anti-forgery features, the tongue print is poised to become the next big thing in security. #FACTOVATE #Biometrics #Security

    factovate.com/tongue-print-vs-

  4. Mashable: Ring cameras’ new Familiar Faces tool violates state privacy laws, privacy experts say. “On Sept. 30, Amazon announced new Ring security cameras and AI features at an event in New York City. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that one of those AI features, a tool called Familiar Faces, ‘has the potential to violate the privacy rights of millions of people and could result in […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/08/mashable-ring-cameras-new-familiar-faces-tool-violates-state-privacy-laws-privacy-experts-say/

  5. 🚨 New lie detection technologies are emerging, but are they reliable? 🤔 EyeDetect, AVATAR, and Silent Talker claim high accuracy rates, but lack independent peer-reviewed studies. 📊 Proprietary algorithms raise bias concerns and questions about due process. 🚫

    policingproject.org/news-main/

    #LieDetection #Biometrics #AI #privacy

  6. Instead Of Making Life Easier For Pensioners, Widows, Transgenders, A J&K Govt Online Process Has Led To Misery

    In September 2022, the Jammu & Kashmir government began online verification to make welfare doles for pensioners, the differently abled, widows, and transgenders more efficient. Instead, reflecting similar glitches in other states, hundreds have been denied monthly income for seven to eight months due to lack of documents, system glitches and biometric mismatches, despite several trips to offices meant to help them.

    #kashmir #JKGovt #aadhaar #biometrics #pension #security #WelfareSchemes #UIDAI #india

    article-14.com/post/instead-of

  7. More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned for free cryptocurrency - Enlarge / People in Chile with Worldcoin's "Orb" iris scanner. (credit:... - arstechnica.com/?p=1806743 #cryptocurrency #irisscanning #biometrics #worldcoin #bitcoin #biz&it #policy