Identification
Amid immigration crackdown, Colombia revokes national IDs for thousands of Venezuelans without warning
The Colombian government has revoked national IDs belonging to 43,000 Venezuelan immigrants, following a sweep to root out fraudulent citizenship. Those who applied for citizenship with documents deemed insufficient now face bureaucratic, social and legal hurdles — and possible deportation.
Brands That Might Be Extinct in 2012
What do Sony Pictures, A&W Restaurants, Saab, American Apparel, Sears, Kellogg’s Corn Pops, MySpace, Soap Opera Digest, and Nokia have in common? They’re ten brands that 24/7 Wall St, a Delaware-based financial news group, says won’t survive through 2012. And it looks like some of those predictions might already be coming true – on Tuesday, […]
New Military Biometric Technology Used to Track Combatants
Nearly 500 inmates escaped an Afghan prison last April, highlighting some major deficiencies in the country’s security infrastructure. Despite that, U.S. efforts in Afghanistan may be much more high-tech than many realize. Recently, U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan and Iraq have been taking eye scans and fingerprints to compile a large database of biometric information on prisoners […]
New Police Technology Raises Privacy Concerns
Starting this fall, law-enforcement agencies across the country will be outfitted with new devices that will make iPhones capable of scanning a person’s face and matching it to a database of people with criminal records. The new facial-recognition technology, which is also able to collect fingerprints, has raised concerns with privacy advocates who say police […]