Ghana urges state entities to harmonize biometric verification databases
President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana has directed all state institutions to standardize and harmonize their biometric identification and verification…
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Ukraine deploys biometrics at the border, on the battlefield
It is, if you will, the opposite of liveness detection: the government of Ukraine is launching an experimental program that…
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…
