UK Home Office under fire after losing 150K biometric records from police database
The UK Home Office has accidentally deleted an estimated 150,000 arrest history records from the Police National Computer (PNC), including…
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Biometric voting machine failures isolated incidents, Uganda’s Electoral Commission says
An unknown number of biometric voter verification machines being used in Uganda’s election failed to verify the identity of people…
Huawei, Megvii, SenseTime patents describing biometric ethnicity detection, tracking revealed
Huawei and other China-based firms have attempted to protect technologies related to their ethnicity-tracking biometrics with patents, IPVM has discovered. The tech…
Paravision answers face biometrics ethics concerns with AI Principles and new chief advisor
Paravision has published a set of principles to guide the ethical development of face biometrics and other technologies related to artificial…
Plurilock files behavioral biometrics patent for continuous remote worker authentication
Plurilock has filed for a patent to cover a new form of continuous authentication with behavioral biometrics for remote workers. The…
Biometrics for healthcare wearables developed by Valencell, exhibited at CES
Valencell has announced the development of an upgraded biometric blood pressure measuring technology for wearables that does not require calibration…
Ensuring facial recognition is ‘a force for good’ with Corsight’s new privacy chief Tony Porter
After seven years working on regulation of face biometrics and other technologies used for surveillance by law enforcement and intelligence…
Privacy of personal data like biometrics tops workplace wearable concerns in Nymi study
More than three out of four Americans would be willing to use a wearable like Nymi’s biometric wristbands to improve…
New Orbbec 3D cameras launch at CES 2021 for low-light and industrial applications
Orbbec has debuted a series of new 3D cameras and a processor with advanced features capable of supporting biometric deployments in…
Ceva licenses AI processing for DARPA biometrics and research programs
Ceva has reached an open licensing agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to help its programs innovate…
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