Rights groups urge Scotland to grant Biometrics Commissioner broad oversight mandate
A coalition of rights advocacy groups has called on Scotland’s government to expand the scope of the proposed biometrics commissioner…
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Vision-Box biometric departure smartgates deal with Australia extended to 2026
Australia’s Department of Home Affairs and Vision-Box have agreed to a five-year contract to extend the biometric SmartGates Departures Program…
Goodix demonstrates IoT solutions and biometrics for cars at Apsara Conference
Goodix is demonstrating its latest IoT products and smart applications based on its IoT platform’s core technologies at Alibaba Cloud’s…
HID Global to target Indian biometrics and smart card market in 2020
India will be a major emerging target market for HID Global in 2020, Indian publication Dataquest reports as the company…
Digital ID in Africa this week: mammoth biometric registration plans for Nigeria and Interpol in the Sahel
The sheer scale of the projects underway in Kenya and Nigeria mean that once again the two countries dominate Africa’s…
Amazon working on facial recognition regulation as groups write Congress to oppose bans
It makes a lot of sense to regulate biometric facial recognition technology, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who revealed…
‘Prone to hacking’: expert witness in Kenya’s Huduma Namba hearings first round
“[The National Integrated Identity Management System] thus is an archaic design compared to modern-day systems architecture and can be rightly…
EAB awards three researchers for contributions to fingerprint and facial biometrics
University of Ljubljana researcher Dr. Klemen Grm has won the first EAB Max Snijder Award for his research on processing…
ICAO denies alleged privacy flaw in biometric passports
A group of researchers from the University of Luxemburg may have detected a critical security flaw in the International Civil…
Biometrics among critical data at major risk, say 30 percent of U.S. executives
More than 30 percent of executives in the U.S. fear critical employee and company data, including biometric details, are vulnerable…
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