RCMP actively seeking facial and tattoo recognition system without approval
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been actively seeking to obtain a new nationwide Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)…
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Report reveals police body camera programs fail to protect civil rights and privacy
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and Upturn have released a scorecard evaluating the civil rights security measures…
Biometrics Institute releases findings from 2016 industry survey
The Biometrics Institute has released to its members the full report on the findings of the 2016 Biometrics Institute Industry…
Samsung Galaxy Note7 features Qualcomm iris scanning technology
Qualcomm Incorporated announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., is powering Samsung’s latest smartphone model, the Samsung Galaxy Note7 for…
Neurotechnology integrates face recognition into biometric ID and object tracking surveillance system
Neurotechnology has released the SentiVeillance 5.0 software development kit (SDK), which incorporates the new VeriLook face recognition algorithm featured in…
Acuity report forecasts biometric ID credentials to reach one billion a year by 2022
Acuity Market Intelligence has published new research that predicts that by 2022, annual production of biometric “physical” identity credentials will…
New Gozi Trojan can dupe some behavioral biometrics security measures
A new version of the Gozi banking trojan that is currently active in Japan, Spain, and Poland, has the ability…
Allevate releases SaaS face recognition service on UK digital marketplace
Allevate is now offering MXSERVER on the UK Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Marketplace G-Cloud 8 Framework. Allevate’s SaaS G-Cloud offering…
NIST drafts mobile security standards for first responder technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has collaborated with the first responder community to draft a proposed reference…
Ping Identity acquires ID and access management software firm UnboundID
Ping Identity announced that it has acquired customer identity and access management software firm UnboundID for an undisclosed amount. The…
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