Tech and surveillance news bites

Feds spending billions to implement face recognition technology that failed to identify Boston Marathon suspects

The future beckons, but we aren’t ready for it

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Think surveillance and communications privacy law is bad now? Just wait until the military’s “bioreactive taggants” and “smart dust” migrate back to the United States, and end up in the arsenals of the FBI, DHS, DEA, ATF, LAPD, and NYPD.

Immigration bill contains horrible biometric identities tracking database

Cop car with built-in face recognition and predictive policing wins UK award

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Biometrics video tells a government friendly story about very powerful technologies

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Thursday technology links round-up

Lots in the news at the intersection of privacy and technology this week. Take a look at some of the stuff you might have missed:

Identifying you from your heart rate, from a drone?

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