{"id":97270,"date":"2019-10-10T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T08:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/france-set-to-roll-out-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-program"},"modified":"2019-10-10T01:03:25","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T08:03:25","slug":"france-set-to-roll-out-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/france-set-to-roll-out-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-program","title":{"rendered":"France Set to Roll Out Nationwide Facial Recognition ID Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/france-set-to-roll-out-nationwide-facial-recognition-id-program2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the move, France will join states around the world rushing to create \u201cdigital identities\u201d to give citizens secure access to everything from their taxes and banks to social security and utility bills. Singapore uses facial recognition and has signed an accord to help the U.K. prepare its own ID system. India uses iris scans.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>France is poised to become the first European country to use facial recognition technology to give citizens a secure digital identity \u2014 whether they want it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Saying it wants to make the state more efficient, President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s government is pushing through plans to roll out an ID program, dubbed Alicem, in November, earlier than an initial Christmas target. The country\u2019s data regulator says the program breaches the European rule of consent and a privacy group is challenging it in France\u2019s highest administrative court. It took a hacker just over an hour to break into a \u201csecure\u201d government messaging app this year, raising concerns about the state\u2019s security standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the move, France will join states around the world rushing to create \u201cdigital identities\u201d to give citizens secure access to everything from their taxes and banks to social security and utility bills. Singapore uses facial recognition and has signed an accord to help the U.K. prepare its own ID system. India uses iris scans. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,1490,6,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-government","category-robotics-ai","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}