Tag: biometrics
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news on the march
halliburton winds up iran workfrom afp: US oil services giant Halliburton said Monday it had wrapped up its work commitments in Iran and was no longer conducting any projects in the Islamic republic…Halliburton announced last month that it was relocating to the United Arab Emirates to capitalize on the Gulf region’s booming energy market. bush…
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big brother state
from you tube: An animated short about public surveillance by David Scharf
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blair pleads the case for biometric ID cards
from afp: Prime Minister Tony Blair has written personally to thousands of people opposed to the introduction of identity cards, but admitted he would struggle to convince civil liberties groups. Blair told nearly 28,000 people who signed an on-line petition on his own website that ID cards would make an “important contribution” countering fraud, international…
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iris scan database of children forms
from houston chronicle: Technology developed to keep track of prisoners by scanning their irises became available Thursday to identify missing children… part of an effort to image the irises of 5 million children into a nationwide database over the next few years, said Robert Melley, vice president and CEO of Biometric Intelligence & Identification. but…
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suspect nation
from bbc 4: Since Tony Blair’s New Labour government came to power in 1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed dramatically. ASBO’s were introduced by Section 1 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The right to remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy, free from…