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7 Nov 2023 2 minute read 4 comments Debesh Choudhury
Massive data breach of a national digital ID system! India's Digital Identity system Aadhaar's recent data breach made it clear that Aadhaar is highly security vulnerable and a broken ID system! More than 81 crores (0.81 billion) of Indian citizens'...
27 Sep 2023 2 minute read 12 comments Debesh Choudhury
Aadhaar is a broken digital identity project of India! Adopting biometrics as an authentication factor made Aadhaar a pain for Indian citizens! They lose money almost every day from their bank accounts! Daily, poor citizens lose money from their...
30 Aug 2023 2 minute read 7 comments Debesh Choudhury
Privacy and security are concerns with the people's data collected/harvested by digital identity service providers, government bodies, and private corporations. Both privacy and security are important for all Internet users. I raise a question....
22 Aug 2023 4 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark
On the 27th of July, the most excellent Cryptogod brought us news of WorldCoin (the cryptocurrency project using biometric iris/retina scanners to determine humanity), in his post titled Vitalik Buterin Concerned over WorldCoin. In the course of the...
9 Aug 2023 3 minute read 12 comments Debesh Choudhury
OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman put himself inside a biometrics crypto trap. Tech millionaire (or billionaire) Sam Altman's start-up Worldcoin emerged from stealth mode and offered free cryptocurrency to global citizens who verify their account...
22 Jul 2023 4 minute read 5 comments Debesh Choudhury
Biometrics has been a subject of my applied research for more than ten years. I started carrying out three-dimensional (3D) object recognition in the winter of 2000. Then I was on a postdoctoral research stint at the University of Electro-Communicat...
3 May 2023 1 minute read 7 comments Debesh Choudhury
Biometrics is a technology hype that propagates on the Internet. The big tech corporations supported by the mainstream news media regularly make false propaganda that "biometrics improves security." On the contrary, biometrics is a security-lower...
26 Sep 2022 5 minute read 2 comments Debesh Choudhury
Biometrics is often projected as a security token. The mainstream technology news media project biometrics as a preferred token for personal identity verification and authentication. The news media highlight the huge market for biometrics securit...
8 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Thunderboltkid
It's not too late to rescue the US 2022 Mid Terms? Really? Not. Maybe 2024. Rescued with Blockchain and distributed Public Ledgers? Let's face it many primary vote returns are already compromised, witness the recount situation in Washington State 2...
29 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist
Researchers ranked 96 countries by their collection and use of biometric data. Biometrics are gathered and stored as part of international travel, banking, law enforcement, healthcare tracking, and general surveillance by governments. The worst off...
