GE Employees Lit Up with Sensitive Doc Breach
Marriage, divorce and death certificates, beneficiary info, passports and more were all caught up in an email takeover hack. Continue reading GE Employees Lit Up with Sensitive Doc Breach
Category Archives: passports
Nationwide facial recognition ID program underway in France
It’s coming next month, in spite of a lawsuit and the data regulator’s protests about lack of consent, data security and privacy. Continue reading Nationwide facial recognition ID program underway in France
German Art Activists Get Passport Using Digitally Altered Photo of Two Women Merged Together
It’s part of an artwork called “Mask ID,” a campaign that’s encouraging ordinary citizens to “flood government databases with misinformation” and disrupt mass surveillance programs. Continue reading German Art Activists Get Passport Using Digitally Altered Photo of Two Women Merged Together
Australia Plans to Replace Passports with Facial Recognition
They’ll start testing at Canberra Airport in July. Continue reading Australia Plans to Replace Passports with Facial Recognition
Hacker Claims Theft of Thousands of Passport Numbers from Russian Consulate
The hacker provided Motherboard with a file of some 6,000 records, containing passport numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers. Continue reading Hacker Claims Theft of Thousands of Passport Numbers from Russian Consulate
Hijacking Someone’s Facebook Account with a Fake Passport Copy
BBC has the story. The confusion is that a scan of a passport is much easier to forge than an actual passport. This is a truly hard problem: how do you give people the ability to get back into their accounts after they’ve lost their credentials, while at the same time prohibiting hackers from using the same mechanism to hijack… Continue reading Hijacking Someone’s Facebook Account with a Fake Passport Copy
Kuwaiti Government will DNA Test Everyone
There’s a new law that will enforce DNA testing for everyone: citizens, expatriates, and visitors. They promise that the program "does not include genealogical implications or affects personal freedoms and privacy." I assume that "visitors" includes tourists, so presumably the entry procedure at passport control will now include a cheek swab. And there is nothing preventing the Kuwaiti government from… Continue reading Kuwaiti Government will DNA Test Everyone