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• Biometric Smackdown: Backlash Grows Against Facial Recognition

  29-04-2019 17:38 via technocracy.news
  Stories of resistance against biometric schemes are seldom seen in established media because Big Tech lawyers head off such stories by bullying outlets with legal threats. Monsanto and Big Pharma turned this into an art form. ⁃ TN EditorA teenager is suing Apple for $1 billion. The lawsuit, filed Monday, hinges on the alleged use of an increasingly popular — and controversial — technology: facial recognition. The tech can identify an individual by analyzing their facial fe
  
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• UN Biodiversity Conference To Create ‘Paris Moment’ To ‘Rescue Nature’

  29-04-2019 17:04 via technocracy.news
  The upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference is to nature what the Paris Conference was to global warming. The outcome will extend the 1,100 -page Global Biodiversity Assessment from 1995 and specify all human behaviors that are necessary to ‘rescue’ nature. ⁃ TN EditorDiplomats from 130 nations gathered in Paris on Monday to validate a grim UN assessment of the state of Nature and lay the groundwork for a rescue plan for life on Earth.
  The destruction of Nature threatens human
  
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• No One Left Behind In New Global Cradle-To-Cradle Biometric Database

  29-04-2019 16:41 via technocracy.news
  A major global tech corporation based in Japan, NEC, says that a global biometric system will help solve health problems as per United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #3, and touts “leave no one behind.” The program will initially tested in Kenya. ⁃ TN EditorLast week, NEC Corporation and Nagasaki University announced that they are creating a global facial recognition program based on the U.N.’s slogan of eradicating poverty called, “Leave No On
  
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