Biometrics - next wave of personal information and regulation
Amazon uses your palm print for payment at Whole Foods. Disney requires your fingerprints when entering a park. Biometrics. This is the next wave of personal information that businesses will soon require consumers to share. Biometric data is physiological or biological characteristic used to identify an individual, such as facial recognition, fingerprints, and retina/iris scans. Personal information collected through biometric data will have to be secured by businesses that
What I Did on My Summer Vacation (and Why I am Worried)
It was during a drive to a sleepaway camp in the Poconos this summer that the signs of the current state of the economy crystalized. Help wanted signs everywhere. On a billboard on Route 80. On a lamppost in a diner parking lot. On a fence in front of a self-storage facility. The signs shouted: “Immediate Hire,” “No Experience Necessary,” or “$1,000 Signing Bonus.” When I pulled into a gas station, I quizzed the attendant about the employment situation. He said he owned t
