Facial recognition verification system for internet gaming will Big Brother be far behind?
LaserLock Technologies has developed a solution, which includes biometrics, to verify the age of players on internet gaming platforms.
As internet gaming has now become legal in Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware, with other states expected to follow, companies are increasingly faced with the challenge of establishing virtual identity verification processes to enforce underage restrictions and other ethical gaming issues. LaserLock’s system, through its VerifyMe platform, uses geo-location tracking as well as facial recognition via webcam for player verification. (how long before our government makes it a law?)
According to the company, this new system also includes ethical gaming features that allow players and casinos to monitor for and prevent excessive gambling.
“Verifying a player’s identity is a simple process in a casino, but has become a major hindrance for legislators looking to legalize Internet gambling,” Neil Alpert , President of LaserLock Technologies said. “In an online environment, the risks for fraud increase dramatically as there are few ways to truly verify identity, age or location. LaserLock’s patented technology brings Internet gaming companies a solution that lowers that risk substantially by verifying a player’s identity each time they play and by providing an ethical component that protects the user.”
The successfully tested prototype solution is currently being tested by Internet casinos.
“This platform is one of several potential game changers for LaserLock,” Michael Sonnenreich , Chairman of the Board said. “The future will see more states legalize online gaming and LaserLock’s solution is all encompassing and ensures the security and safety of internet gaming that lawmakers, casinos and the public all demand.”
Reported previously, LaserLock filed a provisional patent application for a Characteristsic Verification System in February which outlined a system using smartphones to simultaneously identify counterfeit products and protect against fraud. This system also featured the use of the company’s VerifyMe platform.
http://www.biometricupdate.com/201306/laserlock-looks-to-facial-recognition-for-new-identity-verification-system-for-internet-gaming/
Dissolving micro-chip will tell Big Brother your every move:
Article first appeared in thedailysheeple.com:
John Rogers PhD and his team work out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. They, along with other teams at Tufts are developing transient electronics, tiny micro-thin chips that dissolve when they have served their purpose.
On April 8th this year their research paper was presented to the American Chemical Society at their annual National meeting, this year it was held in New Orleans.
Rogers spoke eloquently of the technology, explaining its possible use and exactly how the chips work. There was nothing negative at all in the presentation. Nothing was mentioned about the possible negative uses of such technology.
In a nutshell, micro-thin, soluble electronic chips are implanted into an equally thin medium that is also soluble. The amount of ‘wrapping’ around the chip denotes how fast it will dissolve. Once the final encapsulation layer has dissolved, the chip,within an hour, does the same, leaving no trace behind. There’s nothing at all to indicate it was ever there in the first place.
Rogers said during his presentation:
“…many new opportunities open up once you start thinking about electronics that could disappear in a controlled and programmable way.”
The doctor highlighted some areas he feels transient electronics could be useful. Cell phones that cease to work at a given, pre-ordained date when you would have to buy an updated phone. Water sensors that would not need to be collected after submitting their data. Medical implants that were not required for life would just fade away to save further surgery to retrieve them.
He also briefed the audience on piezoelectric transient electronics. These are like tiny generators that produce electricity without an outside source, their zinc-oxide components make them work purely by muscle power, possibly making them the pacemaker of the future.
What was not said was that these tiny electronic devices are small enough to be injected and implanted without the recipient noticing. They can, as Rogers admitted, be placed in cell phones at the time of manufacture or at any point thereafter. It seems logical to assume that they could also be put into computers, cars, flashlights or any other object you care to think of.
How about babies? That would be relatively easy.
Children could be traced, tracked and followed from cradle to grave…how convenient.
Shop lifters could be transiently tagged so the ‘monitors’ would know if they went near forbidden stores.
Hell, we could self-destruct terrorists…or anyone else that happened to be inconvenient if we laced the inner wrappers with cyanide. Agenda 21 made easy.
How about implanting people so if they overeat, smoke or take drugs, the chips dissolve and eliminate the personproblem? Far less people would need medical insurance.
I think the chances of transient electronics being used purely for the good of mankind is zero. The possibilities for this technology are huge and extremely wide ranging and there is no reason to think that governments won’t use it.
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/dissolving-micro-chip-will-tell-big-brother-your-every-move_062013