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The Biometrics Consortium
It's not too hard to guess what kind of information you'll find here, given that the Consortium is composed of researchers and companies that stand to make a lot of money if their plans succeed. This is good place to get familiar with the specific players in the industry. Includes a comprehensive list of links including all of your favorites recognition techniques: Face, Fingerprint, Iris, Vein, Voice, etc . . .
The Big Brother Awards
Watch them perpetually watch you watching the Big Brother Awards.
National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact
Will biometric technology help the FBI fight crime? Examine their perspective and decide for yourself.
Iridian Technologies
How iris scanning works: a great resource for the bio-hackers of the future.
Analytic Services Inc
This US government consortium uses FaceIt technology as part of homeland defense (a euphemism for domestic intelligence) activities. "We continue to work closely with our clients to implement improvements on such programs as the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, the Space-Based Infrared Satellite System, the Joint Strike Fighter, the Joint Direct Attack Munitions, and the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile."
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Don't know your biometric technology from your Antichrist fears? The Electronic Privacy Information Center features an incredible collection of resources that will help you sort fact from virtual fiction.
Privacy Service
The Privacy Service, based in Germany, enables you to watch the watchers. An invaluable collection of privacy information and technology news.
Visisonics
The FaceIt system developed by Visisonics, a biometric technology firm, has been used to locate missing children and profile known criminals.
Keyware Technologies
"Keyware is today's premier provider of intelligent biometrics and centralized authentication solutions for real-world business applications."
Interstrat
Interstrat has not only developed biometric technology, but also keeps a database of trouble-makers, which the company shares with law enforcement. Is this the end of privacy?
ID Them by the Way They Walk
This Wired News article (September 15, 2000), by Kathleen Ellis, examines the latest development in pattern-recognition software, a key to applying biometric technology in security industries.
FBI: Expand Access to Prints
This Wired News article (October 11, 2000), by Declan McCullogh and Nicholas Morehead, examines an FBI proposal to expand access to fingerprint databases, in order to solve more crimes.
Call It Super Bowl Face Scan I
This Wired News article (February 2, 2001), by Declan McCullogh, reveals how the Super Bowl XXXV security staff watched the audience: a scary thought.
Smart Check-In Cuts Airport Lines
This Wired News article (February 5, 2001), by Lisa Nadile, explains how ConciergeCard, a biometric system developed by Unisys, is infiltrating an airport near you. Soon.
Fingerprint Security Gets Handier
This Wired News article (October 30, 2000), by Jessie Seyfer, explains how Qualcomm is using biometric technology to secure its proprietary information.
Do You Even Know Who's Watching?
This Wired News article (January 11, 2001), by Steve Kettman, examines how biometric technology is part of a broad privacy debate in Germany.
Dutch Biometrics A Go-Go
This Wired News article (November 8, 2000), by Jessie Seyfer, suggests that biometric technology could change law enforcement and security services.
Biometrics: Security Gets a Facelift
This PC Week special report (October 10, 1997), is probably the best place to start if you're unfamiliar with the jargon surrounding biometrics. Don't expect much critical analysis, though.
Touching Big Brother: How Biometric Technology will Fuse Flesh and Machine
This report (1994), by Simon G. Davies, is a well-argued caution about biometric technology and cyborgs.
Show Me Some ID
A PC Week article (January 12, 1998), by Lawrence Aragon, that discusses the hyper-self-awareness of the biometrics industry. If you don't want your fingerprint on file, maybe they could convince you of the relative merits of converting your fingerprint to a PIN?
Automatic ID News
Looking for something specific? Here you'll find a searchable product database.
Biometric Identification Looms On Landscape Of Network Log-ins
This PC Week article (March 26, 1997), by Ken Phillips, touts biometric technology as a new business tool to protect corporate secrets. Phillips makes biometric technology sound so . . . sexy!
Why Voice-based IDs Sound Quite Good
This PC Week article (March 17, 1997), by Eamonn Sullivan, contends that biometric technology will prevail on the Internet. "Hal? Seriously, it's your old friend Dave. C'mon buddy, lemme in!"
Thumbprinting Catches on with Businesses
This CNN report (April 21, 1998), by the Associated Press, briefly examines the ubiquitizing of thumbprinting. The AP frames biometric technology issues in a way that most people are scared of looking like criminals. Another example of why sociological propaganda is crucial in the politics of everyday fear.
Digital Persona
This Metro article (September 9, 1999), by Holly Hanke, investigates why the Department of Defense is funding biometric research at San Jose State University. Has academia sold out to the Military-Industrial Complex?
Fight the Fingerprint!
If all of this biometric crap just pisses you off, this is the place for you! This site covers lots of ground, including papers and links relating to social security cards and database tracking techniques. Scan This!, the resident mailing list, can be a bit reactionary at times, but is an invaluable source of up-to-the-minute identification technology news.
Biometric Consortium 2000 Conference
The preliminary program for the Biometric Consortium 2000 Conference, held on September 13, 2000, is a good source for "competitive intelligence" analysis of biometric technology. Spy on 'them' before they spy on you.
Alcazar Pleasure Village
Outfitted with biometric technology, for your security . . . and our viewing pleasure.
Nightclub Security
How biometrics technology infiltrates night-clubs: another way to make money under the guise of providing a safe environment.
Project LUCID is Here!: The Beast 666 Universal Human Control System
Not to be outdone by the Christian extremism of Jack Chick, that wacky Texe Marrs is at it again. This site (September 1996) could easily fit into half the dossiers on Disinformation, since he manages to tie it all into one conspiracy. Watch out for the Universal Biometrics Card!
Satanic Fears and The Georgia Bureaucracy
This Nando Times article (June 18, 1998), reveals why Georgia's citizens see the Antichrist in action via biometric technology.
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