Clearview facial recognition used to exonerate suspect on trial over traffic fatality
In what its CEO calls a move to “balance the scales of justice,” facial recognition company Clearview AI gave defense…
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Nigeria reaches 90M digital ID registrations as database capacity issue looms
Nigeria officials say they have so far been able to register the biometrics of almost 90 million citizens for National…
Lawmaker suggests Philippine biometrics project held up by former contractor
A biometrics contract Dermalog is carrying out in the Philippines is under fire from Land Transportation Office Chief Teofilo Guadiz,…
Russia pushing Unified Biometric System to enter secure facilities
The Russian Ministry of Digital Development is preparing a bill proposing the use of the country’s Unified Biometric System for…
Frontex wants information about tools for manually sorting immense biometric databases
Do you make software tools that are used for manually comparing biometric data? Frontex, or the European Border and Coast…
UIDAI launches program to identify, block vulnerabilities in Aadhaar biometric database
A bug bounty program whose objective is to enhance security around the Central Identities Data Repository (CIDR) – the database…
Little love for how HART continues to lumber along behind locked doors
The U.S. committee responsible for appropriating government money is “disappointed” that the Department of Homeland Security did not get an…
Israeli court rejects call to delete government’s biometric database, leaves room for appeal
Five years after civil society organizations and digital rights advocates asked Israel’s High Court of Justice to cancel a law…
CloudWalk has Zimbabwean’s face biometrics, but trust in voter roll still lacking
Step by slow step, China’s facial recognition firm CloudWalk Technology is getting nearer to a database of all Zimbabwean registered…
Motorola Solutions biometric tech deployed by Surrey and Sussex Police
Surrey and Sussex Police forces in the UK are using Motorola Solutions’ Pronto to access Interpol’s international criminal biometrics database…
