Big Brother Watch was recently alerted to the case of an East Midlands school which had deployed automatic facial recognition software as a means by which to sign their pupils in and out of school. Rotterdam City Council, it appears, have gone one step further in announcing the roll-out of facial recognition scanners on their…
Month: October 2010
Facebook Says User Data Sold To Broker
Geoffrey A. Fowler and Emily Steel report: Facebook Inc. said that a data broker has been paying application developers for identifying user information, and that it had placed some developers on a six-month suspension from its site because of the practice. The announcement, which Facebook made on its developers’ blog Friday, follows an investigation by…
Yemeni student arrested over UPS, FedEx cargo bombs released; she’s victim of ID theft
ID theft is never good, but here’s another example of how potentially serious the consequences can be. Helen Kennedy reports: The 22-year-old Yemeni coed arrested for mailing the two Al Qaeda cargo bombs was released Sunday after officials determined she was a victim of identity theft. “Another woman had used her name and ID. Authorities…
Can you put your identity up for sale?
A man desperate to raise money for an operation his father needs could be exposing himself to prosecution for putting his identity up for sale. Rhianne Pope reports that Preston Likely, a print worker from Littlemore, may find that he’s gone from the financial frying pan into the fire: He said: “I have decided…