Militarization driving biometrics adoption by UK police and border agencies, report argues
UK border and law enforcement agencies have adopted biometrics not just for forensic purposes but as a surveillance tool to…
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.
NYPD to produce biometric monitoring of protesters or reply individually why it can’t
The state Supreme Court has ordered the New York Police Department to hand over 2,700 documents from 2020 related the…
Awareness grows of infant DNA samples being used in crime investigations
Some U.S. governmental bodies are growing squeamish over law enforcement use of blood spots routinely taken from newborns to screen…
UK-US deal, legal changes could jeopardize EU data-sharing agreements
Could new agreements and proposed legislation from the UK government mean the European Union no longer considers it compliant with…
Police can’t record teens’ biometrics just because they want to – state supreme court
Police in the U.S. state of Michigan have no more right to record biometric identifiers than they have the right…
Trust issues could be a problem for US-EU biometric data sharing plan
Ripples continue to spread after news broke that the United States wants to link biometric law enforcement databases across the…
US local and state leaders push for police use of facial recognition
New Orleans ban on the police use of facial recognition has been reversed. The city council this week returned use…
US ‘signs deal to receive UK police biometrics,’ pressures EU countries to follow suit
The UK government has agreed to share records from its police biometrics database with U.S. border guards as part of…
Who’s watching the US DOJ’s use of facial recognition? Hint, the ACLU plays a part
Law enforcement agencies in several U.S. jurisdictions have engaged with the ACLU to formulate their policies for facial recognition use….
Little love for how HART continues to lumber along behind locked doors
The U.S. committee responsible for appropriating government money is “disappointed” that the Department of Homeland Security did not get an…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection