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Thales wins $21m contract for Switzerland’s AFIS

Thales has won an 18.9 million Swiss francs (US$21.3 million) contract for modernizing the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) used…

 

New Zealand police say NEC AFIS contract expiring soon

New Zealand’s police are warning that the contract for its fingerprinting system, supplied by biometric firm NEC, will expire soon…

 

Vietnam reaches 70M enrolled in biometric national ID database

Vietnam has successfully enrolled 70 million citizens into its national ID database over the last two years thanks to a…

 

Thales powers Guam Police’s revived biometric system for gun-owner IDs

The Guam Police Department (GPD) will be reinstating its digital fingerprint system for the issuance of firearms identification cards. This…

 

FBI biometric fingerprint lab gets a party on its 100th birthday

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is celebrating the centennial of its fingerprint lab. A release from the agency says…

 

Discrimination concerns arise as NZ police expand biometric data use

Incorporating biometric data into policing raises concerns of bias and discrimination, particularly against Māori and Pasifika populations, a Māori technology…

 

Mexico uses electoral biometrics database to ID thousands of mission persons

Recent information released by the General Council of the National Electoral Institute (INE) of Mexico reveals that from 2016 right…

 

Indian police to share fingerprint data, more biometrics introduced in prisons

Indian law enforcement agencies will be able to access and share biometric fingerprint data with the country’s National Automated Fingerprint…

 

Fingerprint matching system developed in-house by NADRA reaches market launch

NADRA has launched its domestically-developed automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) as a commercial solution, under the name NADIR, which translates…

 

Switzerland to spend $27M on new multimodal biometric matching system

The Swiss government is earmarking 24.61 million Swiss francs (roughly US$27.18 million) for the renewal and upgrade of the country’s…

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