Hands Down. Biometrics Aims to Make Your Life Easier.

It is amazing how quickly you get used to a car that starts as long as you have the key somewhere on your person. When you switch vehicles, it becomes a nuisance to fish the key out and insert it into the ignition. Biometrics aims to make it even easier. Why carry around a key (or an access card), if a computer can uniquely identify you?

Number of a Man | Biometrics Institute proposes biometric trust mark

The Biometrics Institute has unveiled its proposals for a ‘trust mark’ system to boost consumer and public confidence in systems using biometric technology.

The Institute made its announcement at this week’sBiometrics 2014 conference in London. Ted Dunstone, Chair, Technical Committee, Biometrics Institute, told Planet Biometrics:

 “The Biometrics Institute trust mark aims to build trust for consumers and the public around the use of biometric services and devices. It will do this by the establishment of a privacy and trust framework to give confidence that your biometrics are secure and that all reasonable privacy considerations have been adopted.' 

MasterCard adds fingerprint scanner to credit cards

Biometrics, Are you in the net?

MasterCard has made a big step forward toward requiring biometric identification in order to use its card to make purchases. They have developed the world's first credit card equipped with a fingerprint scanner. We are getting closer to the time when people will be required to have the mark of the beast in order to buy and sell.

It's in the Hand | Pay by swiping your hand: Quixter makes a splash at PayExpo

The rise of smartphones, cryptocurrencies and a host of other technologies has brought a vast amount of innovation to the world of payment systems.

However, a new product invented by Swedish engineer Fredrik Leifland, has made quite the splash at London's PayExpo conference.

Leifland's device turns the customers hand into a physical basis for payment. Forget contactless payments, Quixter uses a biometric identifier for payments.

One Number to Rule Them All | Bank Verification Number eases your burden of carrying documents

"And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead," Rev. 13:16

The burden of carrying driver’s license, international passport, national identity card, and other documentation that identifies you will be a thing of the past as soon as you get your Bank Verification Number (BVN).

"Even those who are not educated or who do not have identity cards to open accounts with the banks can do so seamlessly.

With Banks Verification Number you will not be burdened with the issue of fraud, identity theft and other financial crimes."

Here's your SIgn. Church Offers Church offers tattoos to members as lesson in acceptance

You know you might be living in what the Bible refers to as the "End Times", when a "church" is no longer about observing the Old Testament Law, rather about mocking God, by twisting scripture taking those with no real biblical knowledge or foundation down a slippery slope of deception.

If your church talks you into getting a tattoo logo branded onto your skin, you just

 might be

able to be tricked into the mark of the beast...

Here's your sign.

There Are No Coincidences

Sometimes you run across stories that are just to good to pass up. Remember, there is no such thing as a coincidence.

Debt Up $6.666 Trillion Under Obama

(CNSNews.com) - The debt of the U.S. government has increased $6.666 trillion since President Barack Obama took office on Jan. 20, 2009, according to the latest numbers released by the Treasury Department.

When President Obama was first inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2009, the debt of the U.S. government was $10,626,877,048,913.08, according to the Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Public Debt. As of Jan. 31, 2014, the latest day reported, the debt was $17,293,019,654,983.61—an increase of $6,666,142,606,070.53 since Obama’s first inauguration.

The total debt of the United States did not exceed $6.666 trillion until July 2003. In the little more than five years of the Obama presidency, the U.S. has accumulated as much new debt as it did in it’s first 227 years.

http://m.cnsnews.com/news/article/ali-meyer/debt-6666-trillion-under-obama

Could a program tracking identities of 1.3 billion Indians be the secret to ending poverty?

It could be and then some...

Could a semi-Orwellian program to collect biometric data for 1.3 billion Indians become a key tool to pulling people out of extreme poverty and integrating them into the global economy? The world’s largest democracy is betting it will, and that it could offer important benefits in poorer countries around the world.

In this case, Big Brother has a name. It is Nandan Nilekani, Indian technology entrepreneur, founder of outsourcing company Infosys, and now chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India - an agency that is collecting fingerprints and iris scans of all Indian residents and assigning them a unique ID number in a massive database on the cloud.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/24/could-a-program-tracking-identities-of-1-3-billion-indians-be-the-secret-to-ending-poverty/