security Cops shoot man, then interrupt his funeral to press his corpse's finger to his Iphone Cory Doctorow

aviation The DHS has illegally stuffed America's airports full of $1B worth shitty, malfing facial-recognition tech Cory Doctorow

videos One week after release, iPhone X's Face ID reportedly defeated by a $150 mask Cory Doctorow

privacy The DHS is buying a new database to store biometrics for 500 million people Cory Doctorow

security Masterprints: synthetic fingerprints that unlock up to 65% of phones (in theory) Cory Doctorow

security Moral panic: Japanese girls risk fingerprint theft by making peace-signs in photographs Cory Doctorow

picks Half of all U.S. adults are in face-recognition databases, and Black people more likely to be targeted Xeni Jardin

security Rubber fingertips to use with fingerprint-based authentication systems Cory Doctorow

picks EFF: FBI & NIST's tattoo recognition program exploited prisoners, profiled based on religion, gave sensitive info to private contractors Cory Doctorow

Business Company says facial features reveal terrorists and pedophiles 80% of the time Cory Doctorow

picks Programmers' stress levels can accurately predict the quality of their code Cory Doctorow

security Hacking a phone's fingerprint sensor in 15 mins with $500 worth of inkjet printer and conductive ink Cory Doctorow

security Why biometrics suck, the Office of Personnel Management edition Cory Doctorow