DutchNews.nl reports: The tax office is to be given new powers to check car owners have paid road tax by scanning every car on the Dutch roads and comparing the number plate to a data base, RTL reported on Friday. The measure is included in the government’s tax plans for 2019 but was hidden away…
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Delta says Atlanta airport will feature USA’s ‘first biometric terminal’
Ben Mutzabaugh reports: Delta Air Lines is set to introduce what it’s calling the “first biometric terminal in the U.S.” The carrier says it’s equipping the Atlanta airport’s international terminal (Terminal F) with face-scanning technology that will allow international passengers to use facial recognition technology “from curb to gate.” It also will be available to passengers flying…
US police ‘using Tiger Text app to conceal evidence’
Simon Boazman & Jeremy Young report: Long Beach, Southern California – Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit has discovered that a self-deleting messaging app called Tiger Text has been adopted by at least one US police department, which may have used it to share sensitive and potentially incriminating information that they wouldn’t want to be disclosed to…
Councils use 377,000 people’s data in efforts to predict child abuse
Niamh McIntyre and David Pegg report: Vast quantities of data on hundreds of thousands of people is being used to construct computer models in an effort to predict child abuse and intervene before it can happen, the Guardian has learned. Amid mounting financial pressure, local councils are developing “predictive analytics” systems to algorithmically identify families…