Category Archives: Biometrics
A penny for your marketable thoughts?
Most people think that Apple’s Siri is the coolest thing they’ve ever seen on a...
That’s what I call hype
A modest little quote from a biometrics expert caught my eye this week. Neil Fisher,...
The birthday paradox and biometrics
The inventor of forensic DNA testing, Dr Alec Jeffreys, has cautioned that once millions of...
An authentication family tree
How do we make best sense of the bewildering array of authenticators on the market?...
Seriously: biometrics replacing passwords?!
I know it’s the season to be jolly but, oh lord, I am so sick...
Technocrats’ happy snaps
Once again, technologists confuse being in public with giving up one’s right to privacy. Today’s...
If Facebook were a government, there’d be riots
A repeated refrain of Facebook’s apologists is that privacy is dead. People are supposed to...
Biometrics and false advertising
Use of the word “unique” in biometrics constitutes false advertising. There is little scientific basis...
Calling for a moratorium on SM facial recognition
I’d like to see a moratorium on commercial facial recognition. It should be of acute...
Aug
Facial recognition isn’t creepy: it’s dangerous
Why do people use soft, subjective words like “creepy” to criticise facial recognition in social...