Black woman matched by facial recognition alleges police misconduct in lawsuit
Another person in the United States is alleging a wrongful arrest based on a false match by facial recognition software…
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UK awards $84.4M biometric platform tender to IBM
IBM has won a £65.6 million (US$84.4 million) tender for a biometric matching platform that will bring together biometric databases…
FaceTec posts another quarter of major revenue gains, reveals BixeLab evaluation
FaceTec says revenues from its face biometrics and liveness detection software increased by 72 percent, year over year, in the…
Startup’s doorbell would match a visitor biometrics to social media
A doorbell company wants to enable its buyers to identify visitors against images from social networks such as Facebook and…
New optical biometric scanner patent and top 10 MINEX placement for Mantra Softech
Mantra Softech has announced that it has been granted a patent for its optical fingerprint biometrics scanning technology by the…
UK police force claims facial recognition generating hundreds of leads
The UK’s South Wales Police (SWP) is reportedly getting 140 matches a month using retrospective (or “forensic”) facial recognition technology,…
Neurotechnology shows impressive fingerprint biometrics accuracy in NIST evaluation
A fingerprint biometrics matching algorithm submitted by Neurotechnology has topped the leaderboard of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and…
New biometric bag drop deployments by Spirit Airlines and Amadeus, partnership for SITA
United States-based Spirit Airlines has brought its self-bag drop with biometric photo-matching technology to Orlando International Airport (MCO). The devices…
India using face biometrics to fight fraud in voting and mobile registration
Indian officials across India are increasingly using facial recognition to identify fraud in elections and SIM card registrations. The State…
UK MPs examine Met police use of facial recognition
The facial recognition system used by the UK’s largest police force is “very accurate” but when live facial recognition is…
