The Gaza Tribunal is a vital step on the path to justice and accountability, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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The electronic repercussions of travel today
JULIAN VIGO looks at the sinister harvesting of biometric data by governments and supra-national bodies
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As six out of 10 Argentines don’t vote for Milei LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI looks at the country’s real crisis that runs far deeper than just the ballot box
ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’
After Zohran Mamdani’s electoral win, BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK points to the forgotten role of US communists in New York’s radical politics
The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
FROM fingerprints to facial recognition used to unlock smartphones and open doors, biometrics is a technology being used to control human movement.
The integration of biometrics gained attention in its use by the US government after the terror attacks of September 11 2001, but the fact is that most biometrics systems in the US were already in place before then.
Currently, biometrics systems are used in the public sector in Britain such as within the border control systems and visa assessment processes for all foreign nationals.
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