Clearview fights biometric app ban by Canadian province in court
Clearview AI is pushing back against a ban on its forensic face biometrics app imposed by a Canadian data protection…
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Israeli Interior Ministry asks to extend a controversial biometrics database
Israel’s Interior Ministry has asked the Knesset for an extension of an emergency order to continue collecting fingerprints until 2025…
Interpol program for fighting terrorism through biometrics deployed in Cameroon
The International Police Organization, Interpol, says it has deployed its Project First to Cameroon to enable law enforcement officers in…
Liberia continues push to introduce biometrics in next general elections
Plans by Liberia to introduce biometric technology in the country’s next general elections in 2023 have again been highlighted with…
Clearview’s internet-as-facial recognition reference database concept to be granted patent
The core concept behind Clearview AI, that of using all public images on the internet as a reference database for…
NADRA rejects biometric database hacking allegation, seeks explanation
The National Database and Registration Authority of Pakistan (NADRA) has strongly rejected claims by an official of the country’s Federal…
InCadence migrates DoD NRTIO biometrics system to AWS cloud
Xator subsidiary InCadence Strategic Solutions is supporting the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Biometrics Project Management Office in its migration of…
Privacy and security – can we future proof biometrics?
By Alfred Chan, CEO of Infinity Optics News of privacy and data breaches are capturing headlines every day. Biometric templates…
Oosto backs call for scraped biometrics deletion; Clearview fires back
An industry dust-up has broken out over the appropriate composition of biometric reference databases for law enforcement applications, with Oosto endorsing…
Failed institutions incite fear of Mexico’s biometric national ID plan
Centralized biometric databases held by untrusted governments that have not passed robust data protection laws continue to elicit criticism and…
