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Identities Aren’t for Sale: TSA Biometrics Technology and the Need for Consumer Consent

Earlier this summer, over a dozen bipartisan senators signed an amendment to the FAA reauthorization bill, calling for a pause on additional rollout of the TSA’s facial recognition technology until the program has been reviewed and approved by Congress. Though […]

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Biometrics: Physical Attributes vs. Behavioral Patterns – The Privacy Debate

Account takeovers are increasingly affecting a growing population of online user accounts due to a confluence of threats, such as weak consumer password practices, frequent mass data breaches and brute force attacks against web properties. The scope, scale and frequency

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Biometrics

Definition: Biometrics is a form of authentication using unique physical traits of the user. Unlike a password, a hacker cannot “guess” your fingerprint or retinal scan pattern. Biometrics is a relatively new term used to refer to fingerprinting, retinal scans,

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