{"id":288008,"date":"2024-05-22T07:30:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T07:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288008"},"modified":"2024-05-24T07:20:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T07:20:46","slug":"2024-the-inevitable-rise-of-biometrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=288008","title":{"rendered":"2024 & the Inevitable Rise of Biometrics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian May 21, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Have you noticed a lot of two-factor authentication prompts lately? Are you getting emailed verification codes that take forever to arrive, so you have to request another?<\/p>\n

Perhaps you are asked to do captchas to \u201cprove you\u2019re human\u201d and they seem to be getting more complex all the time or simply not working at all?<\/p>\n

Why do you think that might be?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll come back to that.<\/p>\n

Did you know we\u2019re in a \u201cbreakthrough year\u201d for biometric payment systems?<\/p>\n

According to this story from CNBC<\/a>, JPMorgan and Mastercard are on board with the technology and intend a wide rollout in the near future, following successful trials.<\/p>\n

In March this year, JPMorgan signed a deal with PopID to begin a broad release of biometric payment systems in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Mastercard spokesman told CNBC:<\/p>\n

Our focus on biometrics as a secure way to verify identity, replacing the password with the person, is at the heart of our efforts in this area,\u201d<\/p>\n

Apple Pay already lets you pay with a face scan, while Amazon have introduced pay-by-palm in many of their real-world stores.<\/p>\n

VISA showcased their latest palm biometric payment set-up at an event in Singapore earlier this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As we covered in a recent This Week<\/a><\/em>, PayPal is pushing out its own biometric payment systems in the name of \u201cpreventing fraud\u201d.<\/p>\n

As always, this is not just an issue in \u201cthe West\u201d.<\/p>\n

Chinese companies have been leading this race for a while, with AliPay having biometric payment options since 2015<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moscow\u2019s Metro system has been using facial recognition cameras for biometric payments for over a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just payments, \u201creplacing the password with the person\u201d<\/em> has already spread to other areas.<\/p>\n

Hoping to corral support for biometrics from the right, national governments are collecting biometrics<\/a> to \u201ccurb illegal immigration\u201d. You can expect that to spread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The European Union will be implementing a new Biometric Entry-Exit System (EES) as soon as October of this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Biometric signing<\/a> is on the rise too.<\/p>\n

Laptops<\/a> tablets and smartphones already come with face-reading and fingerprint scanning technology to confirm your identity.<\/p>\n

Social media companies have been collecting biometric data<\/a> \u201cfor security and identification purposes\u201d for years.<\/p>\n

Google Play launched a new biometric accessibility feature only a couple of weeks ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all just so convenient, isn\u2019t it? So much faster than e-mailing security codes and solving increasingly impossible captchas (both of which have unaccountably got harder and more complicated recently, and will doubtless continue to do so).<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how they get you: Convenience.<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t ever remove the \u201cold-fashioned\u201d ways of accessing your accounts, but it will get increasingly slow and difficult to use while biometrics get faster and easier.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the propaganda will begin to flow.<\/p>\n

Influencers will be paid to use \u201ccool\u201d \u201cfuturistic\u201d biometric payment options that \u201cfeel like having superpowers\u201d<\/em> in contrived \u201cviral\u201d videos. Biometrics will save the day in a trendy movie or TV show. Some old fuddy-duddy will go on Question Time and rant about the new technology\u2026just before saying something racist or denying climate change.<\/p>\n

Maybe a major hack or cyber-attack will only affect those who haven\u2019t switched to biometric authentication yet.<\/p>\n

You get the idea.<\/p>\n

And all the while supra-national corporate megaliths will be creating a massive database of voice recordings, finger and palm prints, facial and retinal scans.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good thing we\u2019re ruled by a morally upright elite. Imagine the damage they could do with all of that.<\/p>\n

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As Kit Knightly explains, we are about to see the rollout of raft of new biotechnology. Ostensibly for our convenience and security, the technology will also bring more surveillance and control <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":288010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Implants_and_surveillance_technology","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288009,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288008\/revisions\/288009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/288010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}