Equatorial Guinea, Ghana want to flush out ‘ghost’ public workers using biometrics
The use of biometrics to identify government workers in African countries has been gaining traction over the years, and Equatorial…
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British govt wants new face biometrics software; industry says ‘not so fast’
The UK government is asking for information about new facial recognition technology even as a major manufacturers’ association demands clarity…
Hacktivists claim to expose facial recognition used by Iranian regime to catch dissenters
A hacktivist group says it has breached a software system that the Iranian authorities have allegedly been using to surveil…
Law blocking use of Clearview’s facial recognition in Australia could be reconsidered
Law enforcement in the U.S. used Clearview AI’s facial recognition in a recent investigation of sexual offences against children, which…
Rights group says EU biometric surveillance still under debate
As the European Union inches toward the completion of its Artificial Intelligence Act, human rights organizations are warning about the…
Nigeria’s Borno State to capture biometrics of nearly 7k ex-Boko Haram fighters
The Commissioner for Information and Internal Security in Nigeria’s North Eastern state of Borno, Usman A. Tar, said over the…
Thales introduces multimodal biometric evidence suite for mobile forensics
A new software and hardware bundle to give police and security forces remote multimodal biometric identification capabilities has been unveiled…
Influential face biometrics group FISWG seeks feedback on 5 papers
The Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG) has published an ethics code for facial recognition users and a guide to…
EU wants data: How does police use of remote face biometrics affect civil rights?
European Union officials have put out for bid a research report about how member states are using remote facial recognition…
US Army tests Idemia NSS facial recognition for multi-person in-vehicle identification
A new facial recognition system from Idemia National Security Solutions (NSS) has been implemented at Gate 10 of Redstone Arsenal…
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