Google Nazis Aim to Create Biometric Surveillance Databases

Google Nazis Aim to Create Biometric Surveillance Databases https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/24/google-passwords-android Google aims to kill passwords by the end of this year Android users will be able to log in to services using a combination of their face, typing patterns, and how they move Alex Hern @alexhern Tuesday 24 May 2016 22.54 AEST  Google will begin testing an alternative to passwords next month, in a move that could do away with complicated logins for good. The new feature, introduced to developers at the company’s I/O conference, is called the Trust API, and will initially be tested with “several very large financial institutions” in June, according to Google’s Daniel Kaufman. Kaufman is the head of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, where the Trust API was first created under the codename Project Abacus. Introduced last year, Abacus aims to kill passwords not through one super-secure replacement, but by mixing together multiple weaker indicators into one solid piece of evidence that you are who you say you are. “Biometric authentication is a powerful enabler ..." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/24/google-passwords-android COMMENT Google Big Brother is poised to collect biometric data. Biometrics is used "to identify individuals in groups that are under surveillance" and is "considered also instrumental to the development of state authority" (source). This amounts to Google Big Brother creating identity surveillance databases, which is not that far removed from collecting user DNA for storage in data banks. Collection of biometric information by corporate, state and state-serving Nazis like Google (or any entity whatsoever) ought to be outlawed. South African case study here.  Unable to skim this right now, but it looks like it might be interesting.