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  • Aug 10, 2023 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cryptocurrency, General Privacy News, Governments, Online Privacy, Online Security, Social Media,

Worldcoin Crypto Project Aims to Let You Prove Your Identity While Remaining Anonymous

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the threat to privacy that central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) represent. Worldcoin is a potential answer to this problem. The project aims to create a new cryptocurrency “to enable universal access to the global economy,” while tackling two key issues that are increasingly relevant today: proving you are human, … Continue reading “Worldcoin Crypto Project Aims to Let You Prove Your Identity While Remaining Anonymous”

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  • Jan 5, 2019 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News,

What happens to identity and privacy when every biometric can be faked?

Identity and privacy are closely bound up. Typically, you use proof of your identity to access your private information. Alongside traditional approaches like passwords and hardware tokens, biometrics are increasingly employed to authenticate people, notably with smartphones, many of which now come with fingerprint sensors and facial recognition built in as standard. As well as … Continue reading “What happens to identity and privacy when every biometric can be faked?”

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  • Oct 31, 2017 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance,

DHS expanding national biometrics database to hold details on over 500 million people, including many US citizens

We’ve just written about China’s ambitious plans to add voiceprints to its existing national biometrics databases. Given the country’s long record of keeping a close watch on its citizens, it’s easy to see this as part of China’s surveillance exceptionalism – the common belief that it is “different”, and that its experiences don’t have much … Continue reading “DHS expanding national biometrics database to hold details on over 500 million people, including many US citizens”

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  • May 25, 2017 |
  • Glyn Moody |
  • General Privacy News, Governments,

Aadhaar: India’s billion-person biometric database is the world’s biggest privacy experiment

The use of social security numbers and biometric databases is not unusual these days, but there’s nothing else on the scale of what India is doing in this field. Its Aadhaar system – the name means ‘foundation’ in Hindi – aims to provide everyone in India with a randomly-generated, unique 12-digit number associated with their … Continue reading “Aadhaar: India’s billion-person biometric database is the world’s biggest privacy experiment”

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