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Creepy Customer Profiling via Facial Recognition

2008-08-22 09:41:08 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...facial recognition systems that change the ads shown, depending whether the viewer is male or female, and in what age range The Wall Street Journal says that Dunkin Donuts is experimenting with video screens that use facial recognition technology to figure out your age and gender. The screens then display ads targeted specifically to you...
 
Tags: ads, cash register ads, display ads, dunkin donuts, screens, video screens, ads shown, age range, wall street journal
 
 
 
 
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More on Airplane Seat Cameras

2008-06-04 12:05:37 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...facial expressions, with the footage then analysed by software to detect developing terrorist activity or potential air rage. Six wide-angle cameras are also positioned to monitor the planes aisles, presumably to catch anyone standing by the cockpit door with a suspiciously crusty bread roll But since people never sit still on planes, the...
 
Tags: cameras, seat, airplane-seat camera system, system, detect, detect terrorists, people, terrorists, saves people
 
 
 
 
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Biometrics Security: Thumbs Down?

2008-08-11 10:22:53 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
Security technologies don't get much cooler than biometric devices. Gadgets like fingerprint readers, iris-recognition units and facial-recognition systems possess a high-tech allure that ordinary
 
Tags: systems possess, security technologies, high-tech allure, biometric devices, fingerprint readers, gadgets, ordinary, cooler, units
 
 
 
 
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Global Dispatches

2008-09-08 05:39:28 by Editor in Computerworld Security News
 
The airport in Manchester, England, tests a facial recognition system as part of a nationwide effort to better control the country's borders; and Sony recalls 438,000 laptops because of a problem that could lead to overheating
 
Tags: facial recognition system, nationwide effort, sony recalls, country, lead, laptops, manchester, airport, england
 
 
 
 
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Camera phone Biometrics An Alternative to Cryptography?

1970-10-28 13:11:46 by Editor in IT Security - The IT Security Industry's Web Resource
 
...Facial recognition software is then used to produce biometric measurements of a persons face, which should stay constant through changes in hairstyle, makeup, etc. Users take a picture of themselves, then uses a random string that, combined with the biometric information, forms the equivalent of a public key When two people need to establish...
 
Tags: data, biometric data, cryptography, public key, ad-hoc mobile networks, cryptography world, facial recognition software, measurement, devices
 
 
 
 
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A Friday Afternoon Conversation About PCI DSS

2008-12-05 20:42:09 by Alex in RiskAnalys.is
 
...facial verification steps (my Grandmother had her picture on her credit card), etc at the PoS. Alternately, it might just be to eat the cost of ID theft protection/insurance for every consumer that bought something (If Im CSO of Macys I work to build the cost of Debix into the annual CC fees the consumer spends anyways This wouldnt perfectly...
 
Tags: pci, pci dss, pci pii, subsequent pdr efforts, pci compliance, pdr, credit cards, credit, threat actions
 
 
 
 
 
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Sergey Zarubin, 31yo
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Moscow, Russia