Trump Pushes To Reap Biometric Data From Immigrants, Americans

Six million would-be U.S. immigrants face expanded collection of their biometric data, including iris scans, palm-, and voice-prints, facial recognition images, and DNA, under a proposed federal rule. The Department of Homeland Security also for the first time would gather that data from American citizens sponsoring or benefiting from a visa application. Bloomberg Law reports: Years in the making, the biometrics…

Star Trek: Picard explores what happens when robots go rogue

Patrick Stewart returns in triumphant new Star Trek spin-off Picard, but the Federation’s robots are missing, discontinued, and for a very good reason Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2231074-star-trek-picard-explores-what-happens-when-robots-go-rogue/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…