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Communist Vietnam’s amended 2023 Law on Identification, which comes into effect on July 1, will mandate iris scans, fingerprints, and facial images as biometric data to be collected and stored for the registration of Vietnamese identity cards. According to Le Tan Toi, Vietnam’s chairman of the National Defense and Security Committee, an individual’s iris does not change over time and is a better basis for identity verification than other characteristics, like fingerprints, that may be damaged or altered. Based on the amended law, government authorities will have the ability to key in citizens’ biometric details, including records of blood type,...

Satisfied with IAM systems after a six-team trial last season, the U.S. National Football League appears ready to go league-wide with biometric ID verification. The pilot came at the end of 3.5 years of digital IAM testing by the NFL. No sports leagues like to lose money when people get unpaid-for stadium access, but NFL owners are particularly upset by it compared to others. League owners are expected to set up a centralized facial recognition IAM service based on its Express Access authentication platform in the 2024 season. That would be for all 30 stadiums for the 32 teams, beginning...

Thousands of Greeks rallied in Athens against the impending introduction of biometric ID cards, denouncing what they see as a move towards a surveillance society. "No to electronic slavery" and "democracy has referendums, fascism decrees," were two common slogans at Sunday's rally which police put at 2,500 strong. "We don't want our personal data to be used,", said one marcher, Dionysis Alexopoulos. "Perhaps with this new card they'll be able to control our access to hospitals or other public places if for example we aren't vaccinated," he added. "This serious subject should be put to a referendum and not decided...

We warned you about the vaccine, we told you this was coming and now it begins to rear its ugly, ugly head. The New World Order has determined that the entire world needs to be vaccinated, and that is exactly what they will attempt to do. It will go a lot easier, though, with the help of the lukewarm Laodicean church. Allow me to introduce you to BioLogos, a consortium of evangelical sellouts who won’t rest until every Christian takes Bill Gates syringe of poison, and receives an implantable biometric ID chip. There are so many things happening now, it...

India's Supreme Court has ruled that the country's controversial biometric identity scheme is constitutional and does not violate the right to privacy. However the court limited the scope of the Aadhaar scheme, saying it could not be compulsory for bank accounts, mobile connections or school admissions. The world's largest biometric ID database covers welfare and tax payments and access to social services. More than a billion Indians have already been enrolled. Many don't have other forms of identification - only 65 million own a passport and 200 million have a driving licence. Those who enrolled in Aadhaar received a unique...

Congress Quietly Pushing Bill to Require National Biometric ID for ‘ALL Americans’ Earlier this month, Rep. Bob Goodlatte [R-VA-6] introduced H.R.4760 – Securing America’s Future Act of 2018, a sweeping bill that entails everything from Education and the Workforce to Homeland Security to the military. Also, tucked away in this 400-page behemoth of a bill are the details of a new biometric National ID card that could soon be required for everyone. Not surprisingly, there is almost no media coverage on this legislation.

Fast ID Online and passwordless authentication, still dealing with hackers in a cyberworld With the roll-out of the Apple Pay thumb-scanning payment system late last year, biometric identification has been introduced into the daily lives of Americans. But Apple Pay is only the beginning of a biometric revolution coming to the United States and countries around the world. Heads of global technology companies, along with top officials in the federal government, have been working for several years on creating a “universal” system for identification of every citizen using the internet. And it goes by the friendly label, FIDO. FIDO, an...

Subject: 'Your Papers, Please': National ID, 2002 From: R. J. Tavel, J.D. Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 12:57 PM Subject: 'Your Papers, Please': National ID, 2002 [[Note below is from R.J. Tavel rj3@comcast.net]] [NB: If anyone is interested in helping me, please write to me asap. I have voluntarily turned in my driver's license, with all i's dotted and t's crossed by their way of thinking, and have requested, and paid for, a "letter of clearance" from BMV saying that I am not licensed and that's OK. BMV refuses to issue the letter, although they cashed my check and won't...