Digital detention expands under the guise of compassion, report says
A new policy report jointly produced by the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, International Detention Coalition, and Refugee Law…
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Facial recognition proposed as UK’s immigration fix by Tory leader Badenoch
The way to reform the UK’s immigration system is not the introduction of mandatory digital ID, according to the leader…
EC launches public awareness campaign for Europe’s biometric border system
The European Commission has launched a campaign to make sure travellers are aware of the biometric Entry/Exit System (EES) which…
Ukraine deploys biometrics at the border, on the battlefield
It is, if you will, the opposite of liveness detection: the government of Ukraine is launching an experimental program that…
Tonga biometric passport part of border enhancement project funded by Japan
Tonga is getting grant assistance of about 882 million yen (about US$6 million) from the Japanese government for the putting…
EU eyes blockchain as digital travel identity management progresses
Digital travel is arriving, and it is a change, but what form it will take and its implications are still…
Trump’s second term drives a biometric spending boom on the border
When Donald Trump returned to the presidency in January, it was clear from the start that immigration enforcement would again…
CBP fails to protect data on tens of thousands of mobile devices
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) vast fleet of government smartphones and tablets suffer from basic security failures that has…
Genetic privacy erodes as millions of DNA profiles are entered into US database
In May 2024, researchers at Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology released a sprawling report on how the Department…
All sides in UK digital ID debate firmly entrenched
Political leaders rise and fall, but they never really go away. Former Prime Minister of the UK Tony Blair, now…
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