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…
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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…
Kuwait nears 2.5M biometric registrations, less than 30% remaining
The Ministry of Interior has announced a milestone in its biometric fingerprinting project, with nearly two and a half million…
FBI biometric fingerprint lab gets a party on its 100th birthday
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is celebrating the centennial of its fingerprint lab. A release from the agency says…
DHS’s beleaguered HART still hasn’t addressed privacy ‘gaps’
The US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) repeatedly delayed and now estimated $3.1 billion Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) program…
Clearview facial recognition searches double, database reaches 50B images
The number of facial recognition searches performed with Clearview AI by law enforcement officials has doubled over the past year,…
Kuwait extends deadline for mandatory biometrics registration
Kuwait has extended the deadline for submitting fingerprint data for the country’s central biometric database. Kuwaitis will be able to…
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