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According to a recently published report, the report states North America is expected to dominate the biometrics market, closely followed by Europe and Asia. Despite Europe’s continuing economic woes, the region’s share of the global market is predicted to increase over the projected period. In terms of technology, fingerprint identification is expected to account for 43% of the biometrics market. With a share of 26%, facial recognition comes second and iris identification is third with 13.2%. The Global Biometric Systems Market 2014-2024 provides analysis of the current industry size and growth expectations from 2014 to 2024, including highlights of key growth stimulators. It also benchmarks the industry against global markets and provides details of emerging opportunities in specific areas.
Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.
Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo.
This piece of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act is aimed at curbing employment of undocumented immigrants. But privacy advocates fear the inevitable mission creep, ending with the proof of self being required at polling places, to rent a house, buy a gun, open a bank account, acquire credit, board a plane or even attend a sporting event or log on the internet. Think of it as a government version of Foursquare, with Big Brother cataloging every check-in.
http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/legislation/EAS13500toMDM13313redline.pdf
Published on Feb 18, 2014
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Published on Jan 28, 2014
The World Privacy Forum participated in Biometrics 2013 in London. We spoke on a panel on privacy and biometrics, and we explored the newest advances in biometric technologies at the conference exhibition.
This video is about the Seek Avenger, a sophisticated mobile biometric collection unit. This unit can collect iris scans, fingerprints, face scans, which it can wirelessly send back to a biometric database for identity comparison.
The US is funneling money into tracking systems that are threatening to make the very concept of privacy a thing of the past. It could mean people’s every move being used against them to keep them under surveillance.
Fujitsu’s palm vein biometric system uses infrared sensors to capture an image of the veins in your hand. For more, readhttp://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/i…
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Yip I’m included. And I hate to admit it. They’ve got my number.
At least I’m marked as a green dot. Found that on my letterbox the other day.
Hopefully the agents are color-blind.