Security agencies granted access to Nigeria’s biometric database; Buhari faces lawsuit
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), a nonprofit advocacy group, has filed a lawsuit against Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari…
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Clearview AI makes face biometrics service available to Ukraine Ministry of Defense
Clearview AI is providing its facial recognition to the Ukrainian defense ministry to assist in identifying people, possibly at checkpoints or…
Turkish biometric system developed by Biyoteksan issues 2M digital ID documents
Turkey’s centralized National Biometric Data Management System has issued more than two million digital ID documents since its launch less…
Uzbekistan plans broad facial recognition deployment, social media photos in database
Uzbekistan is in the process of putting in place a system whereby law enforcement authorities will use biometrics such as…
Statewatch warns of worsening ethnic profiling risk in EU as identity systems expand
Monitoring organization Statewatch warns that new biometric identity controls used by police and immigration authorities in the European Union could…
Colombia’s civil status registry to deploy Thales biometric scanners
Thales is planning to provide fingerprint scanners to Colombia’s National Civil Status Registry for better management of biometric enrollments and…
Driving license biometrics could form pan European ‘perpetual police line-up’: Statewatch
Any holder of an EU driving license will have their details and biometric information and photograph added to a pan-EU…
Another earful for White House on DHS biometrics, states on surveillance
Development of biometric surveillance systems by U.S. government agencies at different levels continues to intensify, as do the protests of…
Afghanistan goes for biometric SIM registration to fight crime
The growing wave of crimes committed using mobile phones has pushed the government in Afghanistan to consider the registration and…
Linking biometric databases is good, say India officials. Skeptics abound
Trust in biometrics systems used by the government is in short supply in some parts of India. The Indian state…
