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Russia’s Unified Biometric System registering more foreign citizens

Over 200,000 foreign citizens in Russia registered their data in the country’s national biometric database Unified Biometric System (UBS) in…

 

OBIM spec enables vendors to build products to interact with DHS biometric system

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has opened its specification for interacting with the nation’s largest biometrics database to…

 

Clearview seeks refund for failed bulk purchase of SSNs, facial photos

Clearview AI is in the midst of a court battle to recover money it paid to a data broker for…

 

DOD advances biometric security while DHS faces privacy concerns

A new Government Accountability Office (GAO) audit report has raised red flags about privacy vulnerabilities in the Department of Homeland…

 

Thailand biometric immigration clearance system needs capacity upgrade

The Immigration Bureau of Thailand has told lawmakers that it is currently working to increase the database capacity of its…

 

Russia’s banks work to boost Unified Biometric System

Russia’s largest bank Sberbank and the National Payment Card System (NSPK), operator of the Mir payment system, plan to combine…

 

Israel keeps emergency biometrics measures in place, more than a year into Gaza war

Last year, on October 7th, a Hamas attack on Israel plunged the country into a war against Gaza that would…

 

Kuwait threatens to freeze all services for those with unregistered biometrics

The government of Kuwait has again warned that citizens and expatriates who fail to register their fingerprint biometrics by December…

 

Kuwait allays human rights fears linked to compulsory biometric fingerprinting

Kuwaiti authorities have assured that an ongoing exercise to capture the fingerprint biometrics of nationals and expatriates in the country…

 

UK forensics database now counts 28.3 million fingerprints

The UK government DNA database has produced over 820,000 matches to unsolved crimes since 2001, new data on the use…

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