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Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

| | baserate, bluetooth, covid19, falsenegatives, falsepositives, GPS, identification, Medicine, Privacy, surveillance, tracing
I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet ...
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Cardiac Biometric

| | biometrics, facerecognition, falsenegatives, falsepositives, identification, Medicine
MIT Technology Review is reporting about an infrared laser device that can identify people by their unique cardiac signature at a distance: A new device, developed for the Pentagon after US Special ...
Schneier on Security