Facebook Lives Up To Its Name, Recognizes Faces

Everybody's least favorite social network is at it again with more anti-privacy fun and add-on application antics. In today's edition of 'hey-look-it's-me' technology, two 'face' sites have joined forces to identify...

Picasa adds Facial Recognition to Photo Sharing

Picasa, Google's free photo sharing site, now has facial recognition for photos.  Once you tag the photo with your friend's name, it can then identify your friends in other pictures.  The tool seems to...

Easier Access at Border Processing in International Airports

A new technology is emerging at Australian International airports, as a way of speeding up border processing for frequent travellers. This technology is called SmartGate and is developed by SAGEM Australasia, in partnership with the Australian government. Originally tested...

Just Another Face in the Crowd?

  Have you ever wanted to blend into a crowd? Or just “float” through a day?  This could have been possible in the past, however, with biometric technologies such as facial recognition slowly integrating its way into our daily lives, it seems almost impossible...

Napolitano defends facial-recognition software

A civil liberties group is alarmed about a new program for Arizona police agencies that will allow them to track criminals — and monitor the whereabouts of regular citizens — using government cameras to scan the faces of passers-by.

The Best ID Security May Not Be Just Biometric :: Symblogogy

Specific identification of an individual short of a DNA make-up can be achieved through many identification processes.  A large investment has been made in systems based on biometric access, radio based...

Symblogogy: Lab Nets Learning Experience - Biometric COKE

"College is such a fun time. Only in the lab would someone think up a way to use one of the more difficult and complex approaches to "Speedpassing" a soda.This spring, A group of grad students at the University of...

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