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'Permanent biometric surveillance of the public square' incompatible with policing by consent, say critics

And you thought a face recognition app was intrusive?

Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border

Missed flights and more means something has got to give at the border Greece is taking a flexible approach to introducing the European Union's biometric Entry/Exit System (EES), after some British passport holders missed flights home following the system's implementation on 10 April.…

Admins are tired of taking photos, so this enables secure on-site unattended enrolment Japanese industrial giant Panasonic has created a new form of QR code it says will only work on designated devices and environments.…

Its very own Snooper’s Charter comes a month after proposed biometric tech expansion The Irish government is planning to bolster its police's ability to intercept communications, including encrypted messages, and provide a legal basis for spyware use.…

Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance The UK government has kicked off plans to ramp up police use of facial recognition, undeterred by a mounting civil liberties backlash and fresh warnings that any expansion risks turning public spaces into biometric dragnets.…

DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them If you're filing an immigration form - or helping someone who is - the Feds may soon want to look in your eyes, swab your cheek, and scan your face. The US Department of Homeland Security wants to greatly expand biometric data collection for immigration applications, covering immigrants and even some US citizens tied to those cases.…

Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits The European Union's new biometric Exit/Entry System (EES) got off to a chaotic start at Prague's international airport, with travelers facing lengthy queues and malfunctioning equipment forcing border staff to process arrivals manually.…

Biometric Entry/Exit System phased in from October to 29 Schengen countries Travelers including Britons and Americans visiting most European countries will have to register their fingerprints and faces under a system that goes live next month.…

HelloGym's data security clearly skipped leg day Exclusive Sensitive info from hundreds of thousands of gym customers and staff – including names, financial details, and potentially biometric data in the form of audio recordings – was left sitting in an unencrypted, non-password protected database, according to a security researcher who shut it down.…

Hello loophole could let a rogue admin, or a pwned one, inject new facial scans Black Hat Microsoft is pushing hard for Windows users to shift from using passwords to its Hello biometrics system, but researchers sponsored by the German government have found a critical flaw in its business implementation.…

Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users' devices, steal passwords, and access sensitive data, including fingerprint information, according to Cisco Talos.…

Wi-Fi spy with my little eye that same guy I saw at another hotspot Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation.…

El Reg checks out shop in SF On Thursday, six stores across America opened their doors with a curious proposition: Come on in, let a metal orb scan your irises, and walk out with a new online profile that promises you're an individual human – and a few bucks in crypto for your troubles.…

AI screengrab service to be opt-in, features encryption, biometrics, enclaves, more Microsoft has revised the Recall feature for its Copilot+ PCs and insists that the self-surveillance system is secure.…

Some scowl, some smile, as fines no longer apply every time your mugshot or fingerprint is shared The US state of Illinois has reduced penalties for breaches of its tough Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).…

SMS OTPs are overused, so bring on the tokens and biometrics India's central bank on Wednesday proposed a requirement for dynamically generated second authentication factors for most digital payments.…

2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed 'unlawfully', ICO says A data protection watchdog in the UK has issued an enforcement notice to stop Serco from using facial recognition tech and fingerprint scanning to monitor staff at 38 leisure centers it runs.…

Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database The Vietnamese government will begin collecting biometric information from its citizens for identification purposes beginning in July this year.…