Potential breakthrough in infant biometrics heads for trial in Kenya after ID4Africa appeal
Infants born to mothers with HIV have between a 15 and 45 percent chance of contracting the virus if they…
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NYCLU urges education department to review plan for facial recognition in schools
The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) has sent a letter to the New York State Education Department, urging it…
Mandatory fingerprinting of children in South Korea faces backlash
Legislation introduced in April by a group of South Korea lawmakers to allow the government to collect and retain fingerprints…
UN agencies and civil society groups warn EU against coercive collection of children’s biometrics
A group of UN agencies and civil society organizations have published a joint statement against the use of coercion to…
Global Good Fund, Element to develop biometric ID tool for infants and children
Biometric software developer Element Inc. has partnered with the Global Good Fund to develop a smartphone-based, non-touch biometric platform capable…
European Parliament supports measure to fingerprint asylum seekers from age 6
The European Parliament’s Civil Liberties Commission has supported a new measure that proposes to lower the fingerprinting age of asylum…
CSIR working on improving biometric ID techniques for minors
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an African research and development organization, is developing a biometric identification system…
Disney theme parks now fingerprint scanning children ages 3 and older
In an effort to prevent ticket fraud, Disney is now scanning the fingerprints of all individuals ages three and older…
Municipalities set up Aadhaar enrollment camps for children under six
Aadhaar enrollment camps for children under six years old were held in various municipalities in India this past weekend. According…
UKAid to conduct biometrics registration exercise for 3,000 Kenyan schoolchildren
UKAid is supporting the Adolescent Girls Initiative- Kenya (AGI-Kenya) to conduct a biometric registration exercise in which it will register…
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