i.d.

The nose knows! – We already have iris and fingerprint scanning to determine I.D., but nose scanning could work even better, and it might make it quicker to get through that security line at the airport. Or what if you had an “app” on your smart phone that let you point a it at a stranger and learn about them. And new research may have made fingerprinting criminals unnecessary. The future may truly bring the end of privacy.

The smart phone application has been invented by a Swedish company called The Astonishing Tribe (TAT). It combines computer vision, cloud computing, facial recognition, social networking, and augmented reality.
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Identity theft was the leading consumer fraud complaint last year. Of the 204,000 complaints compiled by the Federal Trade Commission, 42 percent involved identity theft.. The figures come from a government database that collects complaints from more than 50 law enforcement and consumer groups.

Stealing someone?s identity information, such as credit card or Social Security numbers, in order to steal money or commit fraud is one of the fastest-growing crimes in the United States. It?s been estimated that the number of people victimized by identity theft may be as high as 750,000 a year.
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A new injectable microchip could turn people into ?human bar codes.? Radio-frequency identification chips, which are used in toll road passes, may soon be able to be injected into the human body. Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, Florida has introduced a chip that could be injected through a syringe and is compatible with human tissue, and wants to develop it for use in pacemakers, defibrillators and artificial joints.
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Applied Digital Solutions of Palm Beach, Florida will be the first company to sell microchips that are designed to be implanted into human beings for medical monitoring and I.D. screening.

The idea of implantable chips has been denounced by those who fear they will be used by a totalitarian state. But the recent terrorism is changing people?s minds. ?The bottom line is, when people are trying to regain their peace of mind, they?re more open to new approaches,? says Keith Bolton, Applied Digital?s chief technology officer.
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