Worcester sheriff brings iris scanning program to public school, hundreds of kids line up

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Police in Massachusetts are luring children to get them to hand over their biometric information in exchange for...I'm not sure what. Officials imply that putting children's biometric identifiers in the "missing persons" database is a good thing to do. For the life of me I really cannot figure out why.

If J. Edgar had biometrics: state repression isn’t new, but technology raises the stakes

Some of us are very worried. If you regularly read this blog, you are likely one of the worriers.

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

UK Surveillance Commissioner: face recognition HD cameras could violate human rights law

United Kingdom police are getting ready to roll-out an upgrade to the country's advanced surveillance camera system, to include face recognition "capable of identifying and tracking a person's face from half a mile away," writes The Independent.