OBIM is the big winner in DHS’s FY 2020 funding budget for biometrics
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) wins big under DHS’s proposed Fiscal Year (FY)…
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Researchers find biometric, biographical and location data of thousands of China’s school children unprotected online
A database of Chinese school children’s faces and their locations on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. servers has been found online…
The promise and hazard of facial biometrics played out in one New York startup
Anyone wondering what the future of biometric facial recognition looks like in the United States would have a good model…
Half of Brits OK with police using DNA supplied for ancestry analysis for crime investigations
More than half of British adults (55%) believe DNA databases collected by private companies to analyze ancestry should be used…
Afghanistan seeks India’s help to build national biometric database
Afghanistan wants to introduce an Aadhaar system similar to the Indian biometric and demographic database so it has partnered with…
Idemia biometric algorithm generates thousands of leads as fingerprint examiner tests questioned
Michigan State Police say the new fingerprint matching software the department acquired from Idemia in late 2018 is a “game…
Biometric registration keeps Brazilian voters in line for hours
Voters in the Brazilian city of Fortaleza waited for hours in mile-long lines on Saturday at the Ceará Event Center…
U.S. Homeland Security to hold biometrics for 259M people by 2022 and seeks new capabilities
The IDENT database held by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will hold biometric data from at least 259…
Documents show UK Home Office biometric data migration costs $124M
Earlier this month on October 1, it was reported that Leidos signed a ten-year contract with the UK Home Office…
Brazil plans massive centralized biometric database of all citizens to improve agency data sharing
The government of Brazil intends to collect a broad range of biographic and biometric information, including fingerprint, iris, face, voice,…
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