Digital Identity is Essential for Online Privacy, But Who’s Leading the Pack in 2021?

As we live out more and more of our lives online, the need for a comprehensive digital identity solution is becoming more pressing, and for several good reasons. First, and perhaps the most significant driver from the individual perspective, is privacy. The increasing shift to digital means users must leave electronic copies of sensitive paper …

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Is the Real Estate Industry Crossing a Privacy Line With Biometrics?

Biometric data is derived from measuring and calculating unique human characteristics like fingerprints and palm prints. For decades, these basic forms of biometric data have been used to grant access to secure areas. For example, employees are often required to scan their face, eyes, palm, or thumb to gain access to high-security areas. Similar to …

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Thousands of Public Cameras Used to Analyze Changes in Actual Social Distancing

Purdue University engineers have a built a website (cam2project.net ) that gathers live video and images from about 30,000 network cameras in more than 100 countries and they are using the system to monitor and analyze COVID-19 social distancing. The system automatically discovers thousands of network cameras in public spaces. After the system discovers cameras, …

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US Military Will Use Big Brother Monitoring Technology to Track All Movement in the USA

The US Military will conduct high altitude MESH networking radar tests over South Dakota to provide a persistent surveillance system to locate and deter narcotic trafficking and homeland security threats. High altitude balloons will fly at twice the altitude of passenger jets and use radar to simultaneously track many individual vehicles day or night, through …

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Thought Transparent World and Privacy

Facebook has created devices that read all the words of your inner voice and Elon Musk’s Neuralink is creating brain-computer interfaces (BCI) that will have thousands and later millions of nodes. Temporarily mitigating remote mind-reading of your inner voice could involve headphones for music and distractions of your own thoughts to less sensitive topics. However, …

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Future of AI and Security #emTechDigital

Dawn Song Professor, UC Berkeley; Founder and CEO, Oasis Labs Future of AI and Security Dawn is talking about AI-powered DDOS cyber attacks. Machine Learning in the Presence of the Attacker Cyber attacks upon AI. It can attack the integrity and confidentiality of the AI system. Consider self-driving car AI Real-world stop signs are dirty …

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Trusting Zuckerberg and Facebook Is Like Chickens Trusting KFC

In 2010, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Privacy is Dead and for people to get over it. In 2010, Mark said if he were to create Facebook again then all user information would by default be public. Mark Zuckerberg has recently wrote that Facebook will create a privacy-focused social network based upon Whatsapp. Everything that …

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Tesla Cars With Autopilot 2+ Hardware Will Watch Over the Car in Sentry Mode

Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is working on Sentry Mode for 360° dashcam surveillance. The car cameras will record activity like someone hitting a Tesla car parked in a parking lot. More software and storage will be used to activate more cameras for always-on monitoring for good and bad uses. Since it’s part of safety …

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