Ireland to hear from stakeholders on police facial recognition bill
Ireland’s Joint Committee on Justice will meet in a pair of sessions today to scrutinize the draft Garda Síochána (Recording…
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.
Expansive facial recognition surveillance coming to Hong Kong, Bahrain, South Africa
The use of facial recognition technology for law enforcement has proven controversial, but not enough to deter authorities around the…
EU’s Prüm II rolls on; will it roll over privacy concerns?
The debate over an update to a biometrics-sharing agreement in the EU is simple enough. Either there’re no human rights…
Neurotechnology tops NIST PFT III eval, releases criminal ID tools for law enforcement
Lithuanian machine learning algorithm provider Neurotechnology has announced it is once again the top performing fingerprint verification algorithm according to…
UK university to investigate AI in policing
The UK police have been ramping up the use of facial recognition, biometric data and artificial intelligence with plans to…
Ireland shows how police can ignore biometric privacy concerns and promises
Those who see face surveillance by law enforcement as a danger to civil rights keep hoping that their warnings will…
Ontario privacy commissioner addresses police facial recognition mugshot programs
A release from Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) says it has published new guidelines for the lawful use of…
EU reaches deal on technical details of AI Act, biometric surveillance criticism remains
The European Union Artificial Intelligence Act entered its final stages last Friday as EU countries agreed on its technical details….
India setting up its own version of US terrorist biometrics database
The National Investigation Agency of India (NIA) is compiling the biometric data of terrorists and their associates into a comprehensive…
Regulatory dust settles around Clearview, leaving one big facial recognition market
Regulatory changes and court decisions around the world leave Clearview AI with a limited, but vast target market for its…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection