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	<title>Privacy Lives &#187; Biometrics</title>
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		<title>Washington Post: Privacy rights activists worry about potential abuse of devices featured at CES</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/washington-post-privacy-rights-activists-worry-about-potential-abuse-of-devices-featured-at-ces/2012/01/11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Post reports on possible privacy questions surrounding new technology featured at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas: The thousands of devices debuting Tuesday at the Consumer Electronics Show here demonstrate how tech companies are poised to gather unprecedented insights into consumers’ lives — how much they eat, whether they exercise, when they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHS Releases Privacy Impact Assessment on FAST/Passive Methods for Precision Behavioral Screening</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/dhs-releases-privacy-impact-assessment-on-fastpassive-methods-for-precision-behavioral-screening/2012/01/11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/dhs-releases-privacy-impact-assessment-on-fastpassive-methods-for-precision-behavioral-screening/2012/01/11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s Privacy Office has released a privacy impact assessment, &#8220;Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST)/Passive Methods for Precision Behavioral Screening, DHS/S&#38;T/PIA-012(a)&#8221; (DHS pdf; archive pdf); this is an update to a Privacy Impact Assessment (pdf) released in 2008. FAST, which I wrote about four years ago, seeks to divine an individual’s criminal or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Privacy Stories on Biometrics, Social Networking and Advertising</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/recent-privacy-stories-on-biometrics-social-networking-and-advertising/2012/01/09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/recent-privacy-stories-on-biometrics-social-networking-and-advertising/2012/01/09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few stories of interest concerning biometrics, social networking and advertising that were posted in the last couple of weeks. USA Today: Facebook agrees to privacy changes in Europe BERLIN – Facebook has agreed to make several changes to its services to improve transparency and better protect the personal data of its millions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC Seeks Public Comment on Facial Recognition Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/ftc-seeks-public-comment-on-facial-recognition-technology/2012/01/09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/ftc-seeks-public-comment-on-facial-recognition-technology/2012/01/09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been increasing privacy and civil liberty questions raised as the use facial recognition technology has increased in companies&#8217; advertising and criminal investigations. As identification technology becomes cheaper and more prevalent, it could easily unmask people and track their movements. Those who were previously part of the unnamed crowd could be singled out for identification. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent Stories About Consumers and Tracking of Their Shopping Habits</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/recent-stories-about-consumers-and-tracking-of-their-shopping-habits/2012/01/06/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/recent-stories-about-consumers-and-tracking-of-their-shopping-habits/2012/01/06/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.privacylives.com/?p=15260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The tracking of consumers&#8217; shopping habits (online and offline) for targeted behavioral advertising and other types of marketing is not new. There have been numerous news stories about this surveillance issue. For example, after the Wall Street Journal reported that credit-card companies Visa and MasterCard “are pushing into a new business: using what they know about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vancouver Sun: Canada-U.S. border deal aims to strengthen North American perimeter while unblocking trade</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/vancouver-sun-canada-u-s-border-deal-aims-to-strengthen-north-american-perimeter-while-unblocking-trade/2011/12/09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/vancouver-sun-canada-u-s-border-deal-aims-to-strengthen-north-american-perimeter-while-unblocking-trade/2011/12/09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.privacylives.com/?p=15174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vancouver Sun reports on a border security deal between the United States and Canada, and a columnist in the paper raises privacy questions. The Vancouver Sun reports: Canada and the United States unveiled plans Wednesday for an unprecedented joint approach to border protection aimed at developing common practices to screen travellers and cargo, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TwinCities.com: Minnesota Supreme Court backs families over newborns&#8217; blood storage</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/twincities-com-minnesota-supreme-court-backs-families-over-newborns-blood-storage/2011/11/22/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/twincities-com-minnesota-supreme-court-backs-families-over-newborns-blood-storage/2011/11/22/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.privacylives.com/?p=14941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[TwinCities.com reports on a case concerning the storage of newborn babies&#8217; blood in Minnesota. I’ve written before about the unauthorized or unknowing retention and use of babies’ blood samples for purposes other than disease screening. The Washington Post has written about the ethics and privacy issues when children’s medical data is collected and retained without parents’ knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times: Afghanistan Has Big Plans for Biometric Data</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/new-york-times-afghanistan-has-big-plans-for-biometric-data/2011/11/21/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/new-york-times-afghanistan-has-big-plans-for-biometric-data/2011/11/21/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports on plans by the Afghanistan government concerning the biometric data of residents and visitors to the country: Since September, Afghanistan has been the only country in the world to fingerprint and photograph all travelers who pass through Kabul International Airport, arriving and departing. A handful of other countries fingerprint arriving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times: Face Recognition Makes the Leap From Sci-Fi</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/new-york-times-face-recognition-makes-the-leap-from-sci-fi/2011/11/14/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/new-york-times-face-recognition-makes-the-leap-from-sci-fi/2011/11/14/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>privacy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.privacylives.com/?p=14869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times reports on the increasing use of facial-recognition technology on the general public, such as in a bar. As identification technology becomes cheaper and more prevalent, it could easily unmask people and track their movements. Those who were previously part of the unnamed crowd could be singled out for identification. See this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-Ed at Jerusalem Post: Biometric database is a threat to privacy</title>
		<link>http://www.privacylives.com/op-ed-at-jerusalem-post-biometric-database-is-a-threat-to-privacy/2011/10/31/</link>
		<comments>http://www.privacylives.com/op-ed-at-jerusalem-post-biometric-database-is-a-threat-to-privacy/2011/10/31/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Avner Pinchuk, who runs the Privacy Rights program at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, writes about personal privacy concerning biometric data in Israel in an opinion column for the Jerusalem Post: Last week, after almost five years on the case, authorities located and arrested the suspects that publicized private information on the Internet [...]]]></description>
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