Brazil’s Bahia State contracts $131M facial recognition system to tackle criminality
Bahia State Governor Rui Costa has okayed the disbursement of funds for the deployment of a facial recognition surveillance system…
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.
Imageware brings biometric multi-factor authentication to U.S. first responders’ network
Imageware biometrics have been approved for first responder use by FirstNet, and added to the FirstNet App Catalog to enable fast…
AnyVision launches facial recognition on edge devices for rural law enforcement
A new edge-based tactical surveillance mobile application with facial recognition for law enforcement and military police has been unveiled by…
UK House of Lords consider issues around biometrics, facial recognition
As the House of Lords Justice and Home Affairs Committee hears from experts how technologies such as facial recognition are…
Rebuffed by NYPD, Amnesty sues to learn biometric surveillance details
Demonstrating how not to create trust in AI, the New York Police Department have refused to make public face biometrics…
DNA biometrics advance with FBI approval for Thermo Fisher Scientific, new partnership
Law enforcement booking stations in the United States have a new tool to automatically process, upload and search DNA biometrics…
EU calls for biometric-focused innovation to combat organized crime and border security
The European Commission has published a call for several biometrics-focused proposals within the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, to support European…
Some states reject facial recognition for police, but a groundswell may be building
The Security Industry Association, maybe with a premature sigh of relief, is reporting that measures calling for significant restrictions on…
$46M for an ICE biometric database is too rich for US Representatives
Democratic members of a powerful U.S. House committee voted Wednesday to more than halve President Joe Biden’s request for a…
The key to coherent biometrics laws? It might be found in people who’ve been wronged
The political left and right in the United States each now have their martyrs to indifferent and inaccurate facial recognition…
Biometric Market Analysis and Buyer's Guides
- Biometric Physical Access Control
- Digital Identity Verification
- Deepfake Detection
- Online Age Assurance
- Facial Liveness Detection