Congressional hearing reveals deep concerns about federal surveillance practices
America’s surveillance architecture has grown from an opaque counterterrorism framework into a complex and far-reaching system with deep implications for…
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Somalia mandates use of biometric ID for govt, private sector services
Somalia’s Prime Minister, Hamza Abdi Barre, has directed that all government and private sector service providers begin to mandatorily integrate…
Indian high court rules that biometric verification failure cannot deny legal rights
In India one of its high courts has ruled that biometric verification failure cannot be a reason to deny a…
Can AI predict who will commit crime?
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Will AI be able to tell us who is going…
Biometrics and photo IDs need friends to fight fraud
Biometric fraud prevention, whether at borders or in payments, often depends on photo ID documents, even as new credentials and…
Russia’s Unified Biometric System registering more foreign citizens
Over 200,000 foreign citizens in Russia registered their data in the country’s national biometric database Unified Biometric System (UBS) in…
Biometrics and identity papers become new US immigration battleground
On March 12, 2025, the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published an interim final rule that reactivates a…
Chinese LiDAR system could recognize a face from space
Chinese scientists have developed laser-imaging technology sufficiently powerful to capture face biometric details from more than 60 miles (100 kilometers)…
Idemia to supply Armenia with biometric passports, ID cards by second half of 2026
A consortium between Idemia Identity Security France and ACI Technology S.à.rl has been selected to support the government of Armenia…
Tunisia drives digitization agenda forward while navigating risks
Tunisia’s digital transformation has reached a crucial stage with the execution of E-Houwiya, a state-recognized digital identity system. E-Houwiya, a…
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