UK government considering options for regulating biometrics use
UK Immigration Minister Caroline Nokes says the government is considering options for regulating the use of facial recognition and other…
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Northrop Grumman shareholders demand rights report over DHS biometric database contract
A group of shareholders are planning to challenge Northrop Grumman leadership over the human rights implications of its lucrative new…
CBP does not have data to assess racial bias in Biometric Exit facial recognition
U.S. Customs and Border Protection does not gather data on race and ethnicity, and therefore is not able to assess…
UK Home Office rumored to push AWS as host of combined biometrics database
The UK Home Office is considering bids from several companies for its combined database of biometrics from police and immigration…
Federal agencies move to explore AI ethics and technical standards
The U.S. Department of Defense recently held a public comment meeting at Stanford University to discuss artificial intelligence ethics, VentureBeat…
DHS S&T hosting demonstration of high-throughput biometric systems
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced it will host a demonstration of biometric capabilities…
China considering new law to protect biometrics and other personal data
Legislators in China are drafting a new data privacy law to protect personal information, and biometric data in particular, The…
Trial of rapid DNA biometrics to investigate false family claims by migrants at U.S.-Mexico border
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will conduct DNA tests in cases where border guards suspect people crossing the U.S.-Mexico…
Mobile payments with biometric authentication now available for UK government services
The UK government has announced the approval of Apple Pay and Google Pay to authenticate mobile payments for four government…
“Biggest ever deletion of biometric IDs from a state-held database” to be carried out by UK tax authority
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has ruled the collection of voice biometric data from roughly five million people by…
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