Thread by @Orionis57

Clear risks of government 'abusing' biometric databases, says UK's Biometric Commissioner.

#DestroyTheAadhaar
news.sky.com/story/clear-ri…

"Under an agreement signed in 2018, the two agencies will share biometric data of individuals registered in each of their systems."

"By late 2019, IOM and WFP plan to have exchanged data for more than 700,000 people across the country."

africanews.com/2019/06/27/int…

"while passengers may be able to opt out of scans for now, this seems unlikely to be an option in just a few short years."

"Govts are aware that it takes only small steps to desensitize citizens to technologies that can erode their freedom & liberties."
businesstravelnews.com/Technology/Fac…

Let's use biometrics everywhere because, it will root out corruption, terrorism, black money, ...

"The Govt of India has no data on how many Central govt employees have been fined or faced departmental action for coming late to office."

#AadhaarLies

sundayguardianlive.com/news/no-data-a…

But where did they get photos of 25 million people? Good question.

The pictures had been culled from unsuspecting people who’d paid EverAlbum to create photobooks for them—something that was billed as a way to share & commemorate meaningful family moments
truthout.org/articles/as-wo…

"We learned that after someone unlocks a scooter on the street, the company is able to get that person’s credit report and then share the information it reveals with other agencies. This was done without the user’s knowledge,”
truthout.org/articles/as-wo…

"In January 2017, researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Informatics were able to demonstrate that they could successfully extract fingerprints from photos of individuals using simple mid-level consumer digital cameras."

#DestroyTheAadhaar

helpnetsecurity.com/2019/06/24/bea…

London Police’s Facial Recognition System Has 81 Percent Error Rate

FYI @internetfreedom

geek.com/tech/london-po…

"With “mission creep,” FR gets normalized"

"When you create these big [biometric] databases, it’s just a recipe for privacy invasions and abuses by hackers, in addition to whatever abuses the people who are collecting the data are engaged in,”

Source: fastcompany.com/90372734/due-t…

"They (#Biometrics) feel like elegant, absolute solutions for fraud"

"There is no “silver bullet” solution for fraud. Not only are biometrics not immune to it, but a project with biometrics does not necessarily have a lower fraud risk profile"

Source: probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2019/07/g…

The #Biometric virus continues to spread, enslaving another country.

"the biometric database is operated and managed by a foreign firm... The firm has been sued by the Estonian government in the past for losing its data."

#DestroyTheAadhaar

Source: bangkokpost.com/business/17132…

"Juggalos face makeup cannot be accurately read by many facial recognition technologies"

consequenceofsound.net/2019/07/juggal…

"The government made #biometrics mandatory to prevent fake cards. But the equipment does not register the fingerprint of children and senior citizens. So, many elderly people with health issues are not able to get the medical facility."

deccanherald.com/state/mysuru/t…

What are the consequences of rampant (mis)use of #Biometrics?

"Due to the shortcoming in the biometric system, the salary of nearly 40,000 employees has been deducted."

"Several BMC workers have received between 1,000 and 5,000 while some have got in the two digit figure."

#Biometrics is such great technology let's just use it everywhere and for everything. It will solve all our problems including world hunger, AIDS, etc.
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"During 55 hours of deployment the system flagged up 2,900 potential matches of which 2,755 were false positives."
#Biometrics
theguardian.com/technology/201…

"Nine of the 11 teachers in each
high school were present most of the times. Two of three cases of absenteeism were mostly due to training sessions or other official work."

But let's use #Biometrics because it's a $600 billion opportunity.

#DestroyTheAadhaar
#AadhaarLies

"those who are experiencing extreme poverty, are being used as guinea pigs for a highly intrusive #biometric system"

"The card presents yet another digital check point which people are required to cross before they can access services they are already legally entitled to."

"Scanning people's faces as they lawfully go about their daily lives, in order to identify them, is a potential threat to privacy that should concern us all"
straitstimes.com/world/europe/c…

"Abuses of facial #biometric data means we need to get serious about safeguards"

wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/ar…

US SOF seeks to understand how social media biometrics can be weaponized

biometricupdate.com/201908/us-sof-…

FYI @RungRage @Stupidosaur

#Biometrics researchers show iris recognition accuracy reduced by type II diabetes

~9% of India's adult population suffers from diabetes.

#DestroyTheAadhaar

biometricupdate.com/201908/biometr…

Recently, the Centre had planned Aadhaar-linked banking transaction
through fingerprint biometry because ...

"Research conducted by a team of dental surgeons has shown that fingerprint devices can be deceived by artificial finger impression made of dental alginate material."

Brazilian consumer protection agency halts social security biometric project

“It is unreasonable to implement technology that uses sensitive data without the citizen being assured that such data will be treated securely"

#DestroyTheAadhaar

planetbiometrics.com/article-detail…

Let's use #Biometrics everywhere because:

1. Fingerprints can be copied from selfies taken at a distance of a few metres with a standard smartphone;
2. prints can be taken from doorknobs & glass;
3. They are static identifiers that can never be changed
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Let's have #Aadhaar / #Biometric based voting.

"... hundreds of voters were deprived of their right due to failure of biometric machines"

"Asma, said biometric devices did not work in the women’s section and hundreds of women went back home without voting."

#DestroyTheAadhaar