NYPD turns public housing Internet program into surveillance network
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has quietly begun wiring cameras at scale in public housing into its real-time surveillance…
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.
Hungary law permitting live facial recognition at outlawed Pride event challenged
The government of Hungary under Viktor Orbán does not like LGBTQ people, and has enacted policies to reflect that. This…
Guidance on police use of live facial recognition in the works: UK minister
The UK government is moving ahead with plans to greenlight the use of live facial recognition technology (FRT) by police…
NEC, HID partner on biometric scanner with identity matching
NEC Corporation of America and HID have announced a strategic alliance, bringing together NEC’s advanced SmartScan software and HID’s biometric…
New Orleans crime camera network limits police over video release policy
Project NOLA, the nonprofit at the center of New Orleans’ surveillance debates, has moved to curtail police access to its…
Sole source contract to Bi2 expands ICE’s use of biometric surveillance
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is moving to fold iris recognition into everyday enforcement, announcing plans to buy access…
UK privacy concerns mount as police facial recognition scans surpass 50k a day
There is an increasing number of faces being scanned by a live facial recognition system in the UK despite persisting…
What we talk about when we talk about biometrics and policing
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner When I was the UK’s Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner,…
London police face questions after not deploying LFR at far-right rally
London police are facing questions on why they chose not to deploy live facial recognition (LFR) during last week’s far-right…
Gait, body structure biometrics accepted as court evidence in EU murder case
Gait recognition has reached a significant milestone as a forensic identification method with the recognition of the biometric modality as…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Understanding MOSIP
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection