US immigration officials want everyone on same page before $500M biometric contract let
The U.S. government wants to hear from people about a virtual conference it plans to hold to talk about an…
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US loses appetite for university research but not China
In a report that should surprise no one, China is funding sensitive research – including biometric surveillance tools — in…
NIST listening to AI community on a proposed risk management framework
The U.S. government wants everyone to do better at incorporating trust into their AI products’ design, development, use and evaluation….
Gait recognition could be better than face biometrics to ID coboting workers
Citing the need for a workplace robot to know the humans working around it, researchers writing in the journal Scientific…
CAT2 request goes out for facial recognition at US airports
The U.S. government is advertising for a vendor that can add face biometrics to its existing ability to validate document-credentialing…
What private data? New camera only sees what it’s told to look for
Researchers say they have devised a camera that can take pictures of target objects and nothing else in the frame….
Berbix, restaurant chains and Microsoft can’t free themselves from BIPA cases
Another month, another batch of new BIPA lawsuits and court developments for the biometrics and privacy communities to pore over….
More schools think they see an answer to mass murders in biometric surveillance
Biometrics scanning is the newest technology employed in U.S. primary and secondary schools to prevent children from murdering others with…
SiLC doubles its lidar range, could make face biometric matches farther away
A vision sensor startup claims its silicon photonics can see, identify and avoid objects more than a kilometer in the…
Software startup in UK gets key certificate for digital ID and background checks
A UK compliance and biometric onboarding vendor has earned government certification to sell into the digital ID service market. Amiqus…
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