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Law Enforcement

Law enforcement biometrics refers to applications and biometric systems which aid law enforcement agencies. While most often fingerprints, DNA, and in some cases facial recognition, this is a wide-ranging category and can include AFIS, ABIS, mobile identification systems, criminal ID solutions, fingerprint recognition, surveillance, as well as access control systems.

 

Would you buy a used face-scraped dataset from Hoan Ton-That?

The only telling moment in a recent TV interview of face biometrics innovator Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That is when…

 

Facial recognition had an unruly couple of years in Massachusetts — ACLU

Authors of a new civil liberties report allege police use of facial recognition in Massachusetts over the last two years…

 

Marinus Analytics anti-human trafficking biometrics selected for finals of IBM AI competition

Car­negie Mellon University biometrics and big data spinoff Marinus Analytics has been selected as the lone American finalist for the $5M…

 

Hodgepodge campaigns in US nipping at big biometric privacy questions

A number of federal and state officials are separately talking about biometric privacy. Rather than raising expectations for coherent guidance…

 

Minneapolis passes restrictions on facial recognition use by local police

Minneapolis has passed legislation blocking the use of face biometrics by city police, the Star Tribune reports. The ordinance passed…

 

Short Amazon’s facial recognition ban. Go long on selling Rekognition to cops again

In a spacious corner office at Amazon sits a man at a desk with a finger over a button. When…

 

States emboldened to move on biometrics privacy legislation

Given the anti-establishment and anti-police sentiment curdling political discourse at both ends of the spectrum right now, it is unsurprising…

 

Police plan $4M biometric forensic system in Uganda

Uganda police authorities say more resources are needed to continue the installation of its biometric forensic system as part of…

 

Greek police to introduce mobile biometrics during patrols

Greece is due to put in place a system known as ‘Smart Policing,’ which will see individuals undergo biometric scans…

 

Police face and fingerprint biometrics programs meet backlash in India

Two cities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are introducing separate biometric crime-fighting technologies that are causing serious concerns…

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