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Immigration Reform: Don't Rush to Build Biometric Exit System

David Schanzer | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics
David Schanzer

Immigration reform legislation is likely to be complex with dozens of hot button issues. Close scrutiny should be addressed, however, to an obscure border security issue -- the biometric exit system -- that will not stir the emotions of many, but could cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

The Tax Form That Could Save Your Refund From Thieves

Adam Levin | Posted 04.09.2013 | Business
Adam Levin

Stealing a tax refund is one of the most direct ways for an identity thief to monetize the information they steal. And it's way too easy.

The Washington Post Got It Wrong: We Don't Need a National ID Card

Tarun Wadhwa | Posted 04.08.2013 | Politics
Tarun Wadhwa

The Washington Post editorial board jumped into a center of a decades-old debate by declaring their support for a universal national identity card. In reality, implementing an American national identity card would be an expensive logistical and bureaucratic nightmare.

EyeVerify's Vein Popping Password Technology: Interview With CEO Toby Rush

James Grundvig | Posted 03.31.2013 | Technology
James Grundvig

If the eye is the window to the soul, then the human eyeball might be the gateway to the next generation of biometric password. Tony Rush of EyeVerify say In three years, "people will no longer need to enter passwords to use their smartphones."

10 Predictions on How Digital Platforms Will Transform Brain Health in 2013

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 03.17.2013 | Healthy Living
Alvaro Fernandez

Compared to physical fitness, the fitness of the brain is often overlooked by both individuals and health systems -- but it is easy to see positive and broad changes on how brain health is defined, monitored, maintained, and enhanced, and digital platforms are going to play a key role.

Got Brain? Investing in Our Most Precious Asset in 2013

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 03.02.2013 | Healthy Living
Alvaro Fernandez

We've made a lot of progress over the last century in understanding the brain, but it wasn't until the last few decades that we've come to understand the ways in which our everyday behaviors affect, for better or worse, our brain's health and performance.

Smart Gun Technology Could Have Blocked Adam Lanza

David Shuster | Posted 02.18.2013 | Crime
David Shuster

The weapons Adam Lanza relied on were not his. They belonged to his mother, the only person entitled to use them. If smart technology had been in place, the weapons would have likely been useless.

Smile, the Government Is Watching: Next Generation Identification

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.18.2012 | Technology
John W. Whitehead

Brace yourselves for the next wave in the surveillance state's steady incursions into our lives. It's coming at us with a lethal one-two punch.

How Technology Can Limit India's Rampant Corruption

Tarun Wadhwa | Posted 10.02.2012 | Technology
Tarun Wadhwa

To combat corruption, a small group of entrepreneurs in the Indian government has been rolling out a program to use biometrics -- a technology that was once a hallmark of science fiction -- to accurately identify its 1.2 billion residents.

America's One-party State

Shahid Buttar | Posted 10.25.2012 | Politics
Shahid Buttar

Despite campaigning to restore liberty in the face of Bush & Cheney's blind pursuit of a brutish (and ultimately foolish) vision of security, President Obama has not only continued their constitutional abuses but even pioneered new ones.

Sharon Silke Carty

Ford's Intrusive Technology Can Track Your Breath, Pulse And Sweaty Palms

HuffingtonPost.com | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 06.27.2012 | Business

Ford is researching ways to track your breathing, heart rate, temperature and even sweaty palms to figure out how stressed you are while driving. ...

A Biometric Tower of Babel

Shelly Yachimovich | Posted 03.11.2012 | Technology
Shelly Yachimovich

The unrestricted flow of information over the Internet and social networks provides an opportunity to one of mankind's most glorious times. If we don't protect the public, this could easily become a mean of chaos, repression and dominance.

How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 09.20.2011 | Politics
Tom Engelhardt

Favorable opinion about the U.S. has plunged dismally since the early days of the Obama presidency, but it's not just in popularity terms that Washington has been racking up mind-boggling numbers in the no-friends business.

Give Africans a Stake in Their Own Wealth

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 08.22.2011 | World
Marcelo Giugale

For a lot of sensible people, natural resource wealth is actually a "curse," not a blessing. Is there a way to avoid the curse?

Yahoo! Tracks Internet Ads Using Biometrics

Mike Smith | Posted 07.09.2011 | Media
Mike Smith

The body and brain don't lie. Perhaps it is time for media companies and for political pollsters or Washington public affairs firms to use biometrics and neuroscience?

12 Ways Travel Will Have Changed By 2020

The Lonely Planet Blog | Posted 09.19.2011 | Travel
The Lonely Planet Blog

We polled the Lonely Planet editors and selected the 12 travel-related predictions most likely to come true over the next decade.

China's Pursuit Of Teleportation Revealed By WikiLeaks Cables

Popular Science | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology

It's no secret that China is beating up on America and the West in everything from infrastructure to technology investment, but news of exactly what t...

The Total Control Society Is Here: Iris Scanners

John W. Whitehead | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
John W. Whitehead

In the future, whether it's entering your home, opening your car, entering your workspace, getting a pharmacy prescription refilled, or having your me...

Microinsurance, Microsavings and Microcredit Under One Roof

Bhagwan Chowdhry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Bhagwan Chowdhry

The meagre savings that the poor do manage to accumulate are rarely enough and there is a need for insurance against unfortunate events such as going hungry, undernourishment for children, and pulling children out of school.

India's census fights caste system with technology

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Craig and Marc Kielburger

Someday soon a man in a pressed cotton shirt and tie will arrive in Gayriawas, India. This is an uncommon sight in the rural village with its dry fi...

Biometrics: To Be or Not to Be?

Robert Siciliano | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Robert Siciliano

The New Hampshire Legislature is considering a bill that would ban the use of biometrics data in identification cards. So, is NH right?

From Ni'ilin to Chernobyl and Back, in Under a Week

Hagai El-Ad | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Hagai El-Ad

An IDF officer allegedly orders one of his soldiers to shoot a bound, blind-folded Palestinian detainee at close range.

Fingerprint Scans Replace Clocking In

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

NEW YORK — Some workers are doing it at Dunkin' Donuts, at Hilton hotels, even at Marine Corps bases. Employees at a growing number of business...

FBI Preparing To Build World's Largest Biometrics Database

Washington Post | Ellen Nakashima | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would ...