Biometrics from birth – South Africa seeks to end child trafficking, welfare fraud
The government of South Africa is investigating biometric technologies and policies to introduce biometrics for infants to tackle child trafficking…
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ICE drops $3.9M for Trust Stamp’s facial recognition, London Met taps NEC for $4.2M
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has recently signed a $3.9 million contract with Trust Stamp for the development…
NEC claims win in NIST iris biometrics accuracy test
New iris recognition accuracy benchmarking from NIST is out, and NEC has claimed the top accuracy rate, at 99.59 percent for…
Canadian report considers biometrics, ID banks to improve financial inclusion
Biometrics are one of the top solutions suggested in a new report to mitigate barriers to acquiring and using ID…
Public facial recognition so far penned in by trust issues in the UK and Ireland
Questions about facial recognition in public spaces are getting more pointed and harder to dismiss by governments. Downstream from a…
Spanish port pilots 5G-enabled facial recognition surveillance
Spain’s Port of Vigo is again the site of tracking and monitoring technology. This time, a group of vendors working…
Baltimore criticized for forensic biometrics delays, federal tribal program expands
Fingerprint biometrics remain the most widely-used modality for forensic investigations, and a pair of U.S. developments indicate the growth of…
Researchers use makeup to elude facial recognition via novel black-box attack
Researchers at Israeli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have found a way to thwart facial recognition cameras using certain software-generated…
Turing Institute on Trustworthy Digital Identity: is the medium overshadowing the message?
The Alan Turing Institute’s inaugural conference on trustworthy digital identity explored the risks to vulnerable populations faced with digital identity…
UN rights report calls for moratorium on remote biometrics in public
A report published by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has suggested that artificial…
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