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  1. @theblufnews it's ridiculous. I have no problem with verification for finance but Biometrics being stored is so dangerous.

    This nextgen facial scanning is either owned or affiliated with Equifax which is the security equivalent of storing your water in a colander

    #privacy #finance #biometrics #auspol #Australia #tech #Equifax

  2. @theblufnews it's ridiculous. I have no problem with verification for finance but Biometrics being stored is so dangerous.

    This nextgen facial scanning is either owned or affiliated with Equifax which is the security equivalent of storing your water in a colander

  3. Yuno Fast-Tracks Merchant Access to Revolut Payment Stack

    Merchants can now use one Yuno connection to add Revolut’s biometric one-click checkout, Revolut Pay, as well as…
    #NewsBeep #News #Mobile #Artificialintelligence #AU #Australia #biometrics #checkout #Partnerships #PYMNTSNews #Revolut #Technology #What'sHot
    newsbeep.com/au/880320/

  4. Yuno Fast-Tracks Merchant Access to Revolut Payment Stack

    Merchants can now use one Yuno connection to add Revolut’s biometric one-click checkout, Revolut Pay, as well as…
    #NewsBeep #News #Mobile #ArtificialIntelligence #biometrics #checkout #partnerships #PYMNTSNews #Revolut #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #What'sHot
    newsbeep.com/uk/760288/

  5. Yuno Fast-Tracks Merchant Access to Revolut Payment Stack

    Merchants can now use one Yuno connection to add Revolut’s biometric one-click checkout, Revolut Pay, as well as…
    #NewsBeep #News #Mobile #Artificialintelligence #AU #Australia #biometrics #checkout #Partnerships #PYMNTSNews #Revolut #Technology #What'sHot
    newsbeep.com/au/880320/

  6. I was unaware of this and when asking my new bank to verify destruction of my biometrics under the APP1988, they are claiming retention under the AML for 7 years after the closure of the morgage.

    Grotesque nany state we live in. So gross. Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park comes to mind - just because they can collect this stuff, doesn't mean they should. especially when it could or will eventually leak. I cant change my face

    2/2

  7. Fun trap for people apply/refinancing their mortgage. The NextGen biometric that banks are requesting to for verification is being claimed as an exception to the Privacy Act 1988.

    It doesn't have to be de identified or destroyed after verification for Tranche1 entities under the AntiMoney Laundering / CTF act.

    1/2

  8. ICYMI: Explaining liveness detection: Liveness detection tests whether a biometric sample comes from a real person present at capture. Standards, error metrics, attack classes and ad tech stakes. ppc.land/liveness-detection/ #LivenessDetection #Biometrics #SecurityStandards #Privacy #TechInnovation

  9. EU: Don’t send our data to the US!

    "Under a new agreement, the EU would open up European police databases to the US, handing over huge amounts of sensitive personal data, including fingerprints and facial images, on millions of Europeans, in exchange for keeping visa-free travel."

    Sign the #petition here:

    action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-06-

    #privacy #security #jurisdiction #law #EU #visa #travel #US #Trump #biometrics #personal #data #fingerprints #police #database

  10. Looking at support.google.com/pixelphone/ and androidcentral.com/how-does-an, I'm curious what y'all think about modern #Android devices' "Trusted Execution Environment" storing #fingerprints (for authentication, unlocking, etc.) in, allegedly, a TPM-backed secure enclave that the OS doesn't have access to (really?)… For Pixel phones, Google claims biometrics never leave the TEE enclave, never touch servers, etc.

    I wouldn't use it to travel… but local? I saw some geek friends using it.

    #biometrics #security

  11. TechCrunch: NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people. “New York public health provider NYC Health + Hospitals says a months-long data breach that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records, and fingerprints scans affects at least 1.8 million people.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/21/techcrunch-nyc-health-hospitals-says-hackers-stole-medical-data-and-fingerprints-during-breach-affecting-at-least-1-8-million-people/
  12. 🤯 Your face is data. And if you don't know who owns it, you're already at risk. #Deepfakes, facial recognition, and #biometrics. These technologies are blurring the line between who you are and who controls your data. But is the law keeping up? We break down the fight for digital rights! ✊

    #DigitalPrivacy #Biometrics #Deepfakes #CivilLiberties #DataGovernance #LegalTech #PrivacyLaw #AIethics #PersonalIdentity #TechEthics

  13. Babylonian Biometrics and Widespread Methodological Shortcomings | Communications of the ACM
    dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3744705

    I just finished reading this. An interesting look into poor academic citation practices (leading to citogenesis xkcd.com/978/), historical accuracy, and biometrics.

    Also, this is a good read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi

    #academia #citogenesis #babylon #history #fingerprints #biometrics

  14. NIST: NIST Helps Fingerprint Examiners With New Data and Software Release. “A NIST collection of 10,000 fingerprints has now been fully annotated with details that will help train both human fingerprint examiners and AI tools. NIST has also released open-source software that can help evaluate and sort fingerprints according to their quality, potentially helping fingerprint examiners work more […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/26/nist-nist-helps-fingerprint-examiners-with-new-data-and-software-release/
  15. More shit that will be with us even when Trump is gone.

    DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies | WIRED

    wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-si

    > Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition.

    #DHS #biometrics #privacy #surveillance #faceRecognition #fingerprints

  16. 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/

  17. "Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, identify-verification technology startup says it will begin expanding to the US starting May 1 and will launch a phone-like hardware device by next year. Those changes—and a promised World-branded debit card—signal the company’s ambitions to develop a “super app”—a goal shared by Elon Musk.

    Altman and Alex Blania, a German physics researcher, announced at an event in San Francisco Wednesday evening that their venture-backed company, Tools for Humanity, is updating its “World” products to include a new, smaller, eye-scanning orb. The device-and-app combo scans people’s irises, creates a unique user ID, stores that information on the blockchain, and uses it as a form of identity verification. If enough people adopt the app globally, the thinking goes, it could ostensibly thwart scammers.

    Altman has expressed concern about the amount of fakery that new AI tools will enable, including the generative AI tools pioneered by his other startup, OpenAI, which is valued at $300 billion. So the World app, and its hardware component, are Altman’s solution to the problem."

    wired.com/story/sam-altman-orb

    #IdentityVerification #Biometrics #FacialRecognition #World #ToolsForHumanity #AI #Surveillance #DataProtection

  18. #FacialRecognition #Biometrics #Surveillance #RacialDiscrimination: "In Detroit, we have experienced widely known racial disparities from police use of facial recognition technology and other surveillance technologies. We hold nearly half of the United States’ known misidentification cases by police using the technology. We also have a recent case where a resident was misidentified and had their car impounded for three weeks because of license plate reader data.

    It’s common sense to want to live in a safe and well-resourced city. However, conflating safety with surveillance means that our human dignity is always at risk. You’re living under a perpetual line-up hoping that you aren’t the next Black person to be picked up for a crime you didn’t commit."

    civilrights.org/blog/racial-di

  19. Crypto’s Next Craze? Orbs That Scan Your Eyeballs.

    Tools for Humanity, the company behind #Worldcoin, wants to distribute 50,000 orbs worldwide and amass billions of sign-ups to be ready for a future changed by artificial intelligence.

    > umm, I pass
    #privacy #biometrics #toolsforhumanity #crypto #ai

    nytimes.com/2023/08/07/technol