UK to collect migrant fingerprints in France and plans longer retention of terrorism suspect biometrics
UK border officers have been instructed by the Home Office to collect fingerprints from migrants attempting to enter the country…
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Another facial recognition firm sees money in biometric mining
Executives at a Polish facial recognition service firm, PimEyes, say their software can look at an uploaded image and locate…
New standard will address jurisdictional and societal considerations for biometric applications
This is a guest post by Antoinette Price, Co-editor of IEC e-tech magazine. As global connectivity increases, we need to…
U.S. Oversight Board Member and Australian academics question airport temperature screening plans
Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Member Travis LeBlanc has written to Chad F. Wolf, acting secretary of the Department…
Judge rejects “98.75 percent discount” of $550M settlement in Facebook biometric privacy case
Facebook’s $550 million settlement agreement over alleged biometric data privacy violations is in doubt, after a federal judge refused to…
Northern Ireland police agree to delete biometric records after human rights ruling
Northern Ireland police (PSNI) will be deleting DNA records in “real-time” starting September, following the European Court of Human Rights’…
The many benefits of contactless biometric acquisition and authentication technologies in COVID-19 era
This is a guest post by Okhiaofe Ivharue, head of digital and marketing communications at Seamfix. Never was there a…
Is palm vein recognition the future of biometrics in the new normal?
The vein recognition biometrics market is forecast to generate $1B annually by 2029, while the global biometrics market will surpass…
Clearview AI says it’s like Facebook, Twitter in new defense
No one thought that Clearview AI, the biometrics firm that secretly scrapes images from the internet for its facial recognition…
Biometric authentication: five myths busted
This is a guest post by Sam Bakken, Senior Product Marketing Manager at OneSpan. Biometrics are increasingly being used in…
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