Identity/biometrics/technology marketing and writing services
I’ve spent a lot of time in the Bredemarket blog looking at a variety of NIST studies of different biometric modalities.
But you can read up on them yourself.
NIST has investigated the following biometric modalities, using both definitions of the word biometrics:
But NIST has not spent taxpayer money researching other biometric modalities, such as tongue identification.
“Commercials, Concerts, And a Sports Show”(tm) is a trademark of Bredemarket. CCAASS may be freely used by any entity to refer to the sporting event taking place in Santa Clara, California on Sunday, February 8, 2026. This saves you from having to refer to The Big Game or The Bowl That Will Not Be Named. See FindLaw for the legalities: https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/small-business/legal-to-use-super-bowl-in-ads-for-your-biz/
So for those of us not on Kalshi or other futures or betting markets, who will win the CCAASS? (The sporting part, not the commercial competition.)
As a Commanders fan, I have no wildebeest in the hunt.
Bredemarket has no current clients in the states of Massachusetts or Washington.
There are former IDEMIA employees in both states.
Ex Incode employee (and ex employee of a former Bredemarket client) Gene Volfe lives in an NFC West city, but the team in that city is a bitter rival of the Seahawks.
With no clear preference, I lean toward the NFC rather than the AFC in the CCAASS.
Go Saltwater Birds!
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF, a legacy acronym) is part of the Department of Justice (moved from Treasury when Homeland Security was created). One of its duties is to administer the regulations from the National Firearms Act (NFA) of 1934.
In the course of its duties, ATF fingerprints certain gun owners.
As Bayometric notes in a detailed article, there are two ways to generate the fingerprint cards required by ATF: traditional ink fingerprinting to create an FD-258 card, and live scan fingerprinting to create one or more FD-258 cards. Although the latter is more expensive (even a non-ruggedized live scan station is much more expensive than an ink pad), live scans measure quality immediately and are less suspectible to operator error.
But why even worry about FD-258 cards? ATF supports an eForms service which allows you to submit prints electronically like everyone else does.
Then again, if you’re suspicious of Big Brother, you may opt for non-electronic inked fingerprints.
Remember the Graber Olive House fundraiser from last September, trying to keep the property out of foreclosure?
https://www.gofundme.com/f/dont-let-ontario-lose-its-oldest-landmark
As of today it has reached 58% of its goal.
Not sure what that means, since the company filed for bankruptcy in December with estimated assets of less than $50,000 and estimated liabilities of over $500,000.
Another topic raised by Nadaa Taiyab during today’s SoCal Tech Forum meeting was ambient clinical intelligence. See her comments on how AI benefits diametrically opposing healthcare entities here.
There are three ways that a health professional can create records during, and/or after, a patient visit.
Here is how DeepScribe defines ambient clinical intelligence:
“Ambient clinical intelligence, or ACI, is advanced, AI-powered voice recognizing technology that quietly listens in on clinical encounters and aids the medical documentation process by automating medical transcription and note taking. This all-encompassing technology has the ability to totally transform the lives of clinicians, and thus healthcare on every level.”
Like any generative AI model, ambient clinical intelligence has to provide my four standard benefits: accuracy, ease of use, security, and speed.
But if the medical professional and patient benefit from the accuracy, ease of use, security, and speed of ambient clinical intelligence, we all win.
In this morning’s SoCal Tech Forum meeting, Nadaa Taiyab noted that generative AI can aid both sides of healthcare funding battles.
Who will win?
(Also see my related post on ambient clinical intelligence in healthcare.)
Despite external pressures to the contrary, some U.S. companies continue to promote inclusion.
But are they truly inclusive?
If your company champions inclusion, then you won’t object to publishing this information:
If you think this information is ridiculous, then your company is exclusive, not inclusive.
“Fact: Cities must disclose responsible uses of biometric data” is a parody of the title of my May 2025 guest post for Biometric Update, “Opinion: Vendors must disclose responsible uses of biometric data.”
But I could have chosen another title: “Fact: lack of deadlines sinks behavior.” That’s a mixture of two quotes from Tracy “Trace” Wilkins and Chris Burt, as we will see.
Whether Vanilla Ice and Gordon Lightfoot would agree with the sentiment is not known.
But back to my Biometric Update guest post (expect my next appearance in Biometric Update in 2035).
That guest post touched on Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but had nothing to do with ICE.
One of the “responsible uses” questions was one that Biometric Update had raised in the previous month: whether it was proper for the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) to share information with facial recognition vendor Biometrica.
But the conversation subsequently redirected to another topic, as I noted in August. Before Milwaukee’s “Common Council” could approve any use of facial recognition, with or without Biometrica data sharing, MPD needed to develop a facial recognition policy.
According to a quote from MPD, it agreed.
“Should MPD move forward with acquiring FRT, a policy will be drafted based upon best practices and public input.”
It was clear that the policy would come first, facial recognition use afterward.
Well, until last night, when a fact was revealed that caused Chris Burt to write an article entitled “Milwaukee police sink efforts to contract facial recognition with unsanctioned use.”
Sounds like the biggest wreck since the one Gordon Lightfoot sang about. (A different lake, but bear with me here.)
The details are in an article by WUWM, Milwaukee’s NPR station, which took a break from ICE coverage to report on a Thursday night Fire and Police Commission meeting.
“Commissioner Krissie Fung pressed MPD inspector Paul Lao on the department’s past use of facial recognition.
““Just to clarify,” asked Fung, “Is the practice still continuing?”
““As needed right now, we are still using [FRT],” Lao responded.”
It was after 10:00 pm Central time, but the commissioner pressed the issue.
Fung asked Lao if the department was currently still using FRT without an SOP in place.
“As we said that’s correct and we’re trying to work on getting an SOP,” Lao said.
That brought the wolves out, because SOP or no SOP, there are people who hate facial recognition, especially because of other things going on in the city that have nothing to do with MPD. Add the “facial recognition is racist” claims, and MPD was (in Burt’s words) sunk.
Yes, a follow-up meeting will be held, but Burt notes (via WISN) that MPD has imposed its own moratorium on facial recognition technology use.
“Despite our belief that this is useful technology to assist in generating leads for apprehending violent criminals, we recognize that the public trust is far more valuable.”
From Bredemarket’s self-interested perspective this is a content problem.
Now I appreciate that a facial recognition policy is not a short writing job. I’ve worked on policies, and you can’t complete one in a couple of days.
But couldn’t you at least come up with a DRAFT in six months?
To create a policy, you need a process.
Coincidentally, I live-blogged a Never Search Alone webinar this morning at which Tracy “Trace” Wilkins made this statement.
“Deadlines drive behavior.”
Frankly, I see this a lot. Companies (or governments) require content, but don’t set a deadline for finalizing that content.
And when you don’t set a deadline, then it never gets done.
And no, “as soon as possible” is not a deadline, because “as soon as possible” REALLY means “within a year, if we feel like it.”
Lack of deadlines sinks behavior.
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