Biometrics and Congress
Posted by Jim Harper
The Federal Trade Commission is concerned about the use of facial recognition technology. If we can be concretely identified anywhere we go in public—and if we don’t know it—that’s a privacy concern. Our everyday movements, which are ordinarily obscure, could go into someone’s database. Facial recognition is only one of many biometric technologies, of course. [...]
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A Word From Our Sponsors—And a Word About Your Privacy
Posted by Jim Harper
We’ve just added a new advertising network (Amazon), and it’s a good time to talk about advertising and privacy. In the right column of the site, we have ads, and occasionally sponsored information. Right now we’re running Google and Amazon ads, though we’ll rotate through ad networks from time to time. We keep ads segregated [...]
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