Legal challenge raised over UK police use of automated facial recognition
A Cardiff, Wales resident has introduced the first legal challenge to a UK police force’s use of automated facial recognition…
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.
EFF sounds alarm over the DHS HART biometric database
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) database will likely become the largest repository of biometric…
Crossmatch featuring new mobile fingerprint reader at Modernising Justice conference
Crossmatch announced it will be demonstrating the new NOMAD 30 Pocket Reader for mobile identification at next week’s Modernising Justice…
Amazon responds to call to stop marketing facial recognition to police
Amazon has responded to an open letter from a coalition of privacy and digital rights groups calling on the tech…
Australian travel, policing and entertainment sectors see more deployments of biometric technology
As the Biometrics Institute prepares to kick off its 2018 Asia-Pacific Conference in Sydney, biometric technologies are being deployed to…
Colombian Police select Chainway mobile fingerprint readers
Colombian Police have deployed Chainway mobile fingerprint readers for rapid capture of suspects’ biometric data. According to the announcement, Chainway…
UK Parliamentary Committee blasts Home Office over biometrics database, strategy delay
The UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee has slammed the approach of the Home Office to retaining images for facial…
Biometrica integrates database with VSBLTY platform for stadium and event security
Criminal-tracking firm Biometrica Systems has successfully integrated its UMbRA database with the VSBLTY VECTOR platform to provide security and surveillance…
Privacy groups call on Amazon to stop marketing facial recognition technology to police
Privacy activists including the American Civil Liberties Union are asking Amazon to stop marketing its Rekognition technology to police, out…
Police body camera maker Axon weighs implementation of real-time facial recognition
Real-time face recognition could soon be coming to law enforcement body cameras, as Axon, the largest supplier of the devices…
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