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Arab security body wants to create a biometric fingerprint database

The Arab Interior Minister Council (AIMC), a body tasked with fighting crime in the Middle East, wants to create a…

 

UK police recruiting male Brits for an anti-crime DNA database

The UK policing authorities are on a mission to convince male Brits to anonymously hand over DNA samples to help…

 

Another year, another list of missed biometrics recommendations at DHS

U.S. Congress’ primary watchdog agency is nudging the Department of Homeland Security to get moving on some important biometrics-related recommendations…

 

Philippines connects homeless to government services with biometrics, ID cards

The Philippines Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Oplan Pag-Abot Project is intended to establish a central database of…

 

EU weighs decoupling biometric travel database for EES from ETIAS

A policy analysis document has revealed potential plans to decouple two planned EU databases both containing biometric information, the Entry/Exit…

 

How Clearview developed its method for fast search on an above-billion scale database

Databases used in facial recognition are growing to previously-unseen scale, which for Clearview AI created a need to develop a…

 

FBI’s iris biometrics repository reaches 2.5 million with tech from Iris ID

According to a company statement from Iris ID, the FBI’s Next Generation Identification (NGI) Iris Service now has roughly 2.5…

 

Group says doc shows Irish benefits card data collection and transparency issues known

A privacy agency in the Irish government has collected face scans from 3.2 million residents over 10 years without telling…

 

Kuwait opens more fingerprint capture centers as database plans progress

More than 100,000 persons are said to have had their fingerprints scanned since Kuwait began a process to identify everyone…

 

DHS HART program still behind schedule and over-budget

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has implemented some but not all of a critical replacement plan for outdated computer…

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