India’s data protection bill passes lower house of Parliament, raises privacy concerns
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Bill of 2023 passed in the lower house of Parliament and will now face the…
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Governments, vendors less skittish about promoting facial recognition sales
News of Colombia’s decision to buy facial recognition software from a Spanish company for its national police force lacks one…
Nigeria’s INEC to deploy 11K biometric voter devices for November governorship polls
The Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) will deploy 11,355 biometrics-based Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) machines for three…
UK Biometrics Commissioner resigns in anticipation of role’s elimination
UK Surveillance Camera and Biometrics Commissioner Fraser Sampson has stepped down. His emailed letter of resignation to Home Secretary Suella…
ComplyCube integrates ID document liveness detection to boost fraud protection
Biometric liveness detection has been added to ComplyCube’s document authentication software platform for know your customer checks and identity verification…
Feitian integrates Elyctis digital ID readers into biometric authentication terminals
Identity authentication terminal provider Feitian announced that it has integrated Elyctis digital ID readers into the V20 and V11 biometric…
Rights groups weigh in on NIST’s evaluation metrics for facial age estimation
Human rights organizations are taking an interest in the metrics used to evaluate age estimation by an American government body….
Rwanda’s planned digital ID could both increase and decrease exclusion
Some digital ID project researchers say the plan by Rwanda to implement a biometric digital ID card in the next…
Missing persons NGO alliance kicks off global facial recognition initiative
A new alliance of non-profit organizations dedicated to finding missing persons is planning an innovative use of facial recognition to…
Macau tests iris recognition at border crossings
China’s gambling enclave Macau has started its second test phase for iris recognition at border crossings. After installing 500 iris…
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