Action on Rights for Children (ARCH) has produced a paper, “Biometrics in schools.” From the introduction: … From small beginnings, biometric usage in schools has increased rapidly in the last few years. In 2001, a company called Microlibrarian systems (MLS) approached the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to ask for comments on the company’s plans to incorporate biometric fingerprint…
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Petition to Council of Europe on government use of citizens’ biometrics
The following item is open to signatures from organisations around the world. Please send your organisation’s intention to sign to privacyint@privacy.org European governments are increasingly demanding storage of biometric data (fingerprints and facial scans) from individuals. These include storing them on contactless ‘RFID’ chips in passports and/or ID cards. Some are going even further and…
Newly Released Documents Detail FBI’s Plan to Expand Federal Surveillance Laws
Jennifer Lynch of EFF writes: EFF just received documents in response to a 2-year old FOIA request for information on the FBI’s “Going Dark” program, an initiative to increase the FBI’s authority in response to problems the FBI says it’s having implementing wiretap and pen register/trap and trace orders on new communications technologies. The documents…
FBI to Announce New Internet-Wiretapping Push
Yesterday, I noted that there is a hearing in the House of Representatives this morning on surveillance. Declan McCullagh reports: The FBI is expected to reveal Thursday that because of the rise of Web-based e-mail and social networks, it’s “increasingly unable” to conduct certain types of surveillance that would be possible on cellular and traditional…