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Julien PIERRE

Police will use new device to take fingerprints in street | Politics | The Guardian - 0 views

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    Project MIDAS : La police anglaise s'équipe de scanners d'empreinte digitale.
    Gain de temps, gain d'énergie, de ressources, etc.. Les empreintes sont comparées à une base mais ne sont pas conservées si l'individu est 'clean'. Certains modèles sont éq
Julien PIERRE

Identicons as Graphical Digital Fingerprints - 0 views

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    Identicons est un graphe utilisé pour représenter une adresse IP (hash). On obtient ainsi une authentification sans identification. Il est alors possible de poursuivre cette logique au-delà dea dresses IP : authentification client, commentateurs
Julien PIERRE

Massive Biometric Project Gives Millions of Indians an ID | Magazine - 1 views

  • Making the poor, the marginalized, the homeless part of the system is a huge benefit.
  • open architecture
  • It serves as ID when the police stop him
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  • India’s central bank to declare the Aadhaar number adequate identification to issue no-frills accounts
  • 47 percent of Indian households have bank accounts
  • Each individual record is between 4 and 8 megabytes; add in a pile of quality-control information and the database will ultimately hold in the neighborhood of 20 petabytes—that is, 2 x 1016 bytes. That will make it 128 times the size of the biggest biometrics database in the world today: the Department of Homeland Security’s set of fingerprints and photos of 129 million people.
  • the Indian Department of Communications declared Aadhaar numbers to be adequate ID to get a mobile phone
  • I haven’t seen any agencies asking for caste or religion, but the fact that they can seems problematic
  • We would share data for national security purposes
  • obtain a city government card that will entitle her to subsidized groceries
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