SnowShoe’s Ned Hayes joins Oregon Based Organized Retail Crime Task Force
Task Force Plans To Lead Communication And Collaboration Between Retailers, Law Enforcement, And Prosecutors Lake Oswego, OR – September, 2022 – The Northwest Grocery Association (NWGA), Oregon Business and Industry (OBI) and Organized Retail Crime Association of Oregon (ORCACOR), announce the creation of an Oregon-based Organized Retail Crime Task Force, which includes key stakeholders Oregon District Attorneys Association […]
New White Paper: How Retailers Can Emerge Victorious in the Data Privacy War
Avoid the Crossfire and Deliver Privacy-Protecting Experiences that Help Your Customers Privacy is the new battleground. Apple and Facebook are fighting and small retailers risk getting caught in the middle of their firefight. This white paper provides an overview of this technology, as well as some tips on how small retailers can avoid the crossfire […]
Launching a New Innovation — New Podcast Episode Featuring SnowShoe and Ned Hayes
Ned Hayes on Launching the Spark Tap, a New Retail Innovation Ned Hayes, VP of Product at SnowShoe and long-time retail buildout innovator, describes the current retail scenarios that led SnowShoe to create the Spark Tap, a revolutionary new hands-free device that can securely and safely log retail loyalty events. Joined by market researcher Ashley […]
Portland Business Tribune: Electronic device says who you are, and how loyal
Article by Joseph Gallivan Portland Business Tribune February 09 2021 SnowShoe’s new VP of Product, Ned Hayes, talks about loyalty and hiring at the Portland retailer and software developer. SnowShoe’s new VP of Product, Ned Hayes, says one day we will go to concerts again, and business conferences, and sporting events, and rallies — and […]
Mittens, Memes and Secure Identity
Inauguration week in the United States this year carried with it a host of powerful expectations. From election challenges to pandemic memorials to threats to the historic swearing-in of America’s first female Vice President, this year brought many historic moments. And yet, the photo that stole the show wasn’t of Kamala Harris’s purple pantsuit, or the striking ensemble of inaugural poet […]
Biometric Security Update: An Overview in the Covid-19 Era
Biometric identity was once the future: but what happens when they aren’t accurate or secure? Biometrics is a powerful technological advancement in the identification and security space. But with that power comes a deep need for accountability and close ethical scrutiny. After all, journalists have recently found that in places like Detroit, facial recognition devices […]
Biometric Identity Issues: Robert Williams Wrongful Arrest
The well documented wrongful arrest of Robert Williams is symptomatic of what happens when human beings delegate decision-making to technology that is not well proven or well vetted for accuracy. This is especially problematic when it comes to Black communities, because these algorithms are demonstrably less accurate with Black faces. (Details here) Robert Williams was […]
A Biometric Reckoning: Recognizing the Power of Technology in the Face of the BLM Protests
The murder of George Floyd happened one month ago. Since then, protesters in the hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to proclaim that Black Lives Matter (#blacklivesmatter) and to ask for police accountability in the face of systematic racism. The vast majority of these protesters have been peaceful people exercising their first amendment rights […]
Biometrics Drive the Future of Payments
> Reprint: Payments Next by Ned Hayes, General Manager, SureID It’s Monday, and you need a little brain fuel in the form of caffeine intake. When you pull up to the ordering station, you name your drink. When you order, you tap the kiosk with one finger. A moment later, you pick up the […]
Defending Biometric Security – Gluecon
Great session at Gluecon yesterday on Defending Biometric Security — here are the overview slides on the session I conducted. High level overview, but a very useful and detailed conversation afterward that went to a deeper level. Hope this high level overview is as useful to others as it was to our group who discussed […]