India and UK each unveil new strategies for the regulation of biometrics and forensic science
G. Kishan Reddy, India’s Union Minister of State, has announced the 21st edition of the country’s Fingerprint Bureau 2020 event…
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Transparency for public-private biometric deals? Not in the UK, at least
If every biometrics-gathering partnership between government and businesses was fully transparent, the idea of never ending, large scale facial recognition…
Pakistan deploys facial recognition to secure borders, biometric prisoner identification ordered
Pakistan Customs will put in place a National Targeting Centre (NTC) using biometrics to identify and profile risky goods and…
Biometric database with ‘all forms of identity defense’ dangerous, Israeli govt committee warns
A committee of Israel’s Knesset has instructed the country’s interior ministry to scrub fingerprint biometric data from its database of…
Novel fingerprint collection technique could help forensic investigators preserve evidence
(Kelvin probe in action. Source: KP Technology) Forensic technology for fingerprint biometrics used by law enforcement still looks quite similar…
Aware mobile biometrics with liveness detection verifies parolees in Arkansas
Mobile biometric authentication with face and voice liveness detection from Aware has been used to authenticate the identity of offenders in…
Police partner with NIMC for biometric criminal identification in Nigeria’s largest city
The police force in Nigeria’s largest city, Lagos, says it plans to employ biometric technology in order to reverse a…
US lawmakers extend police face biometrics contract in Detroit, moratorium advances in Vermont
A facial biometrics software maintenance contract for Detroit Police has been extended with a 6 to 3 vote by City…
Biometric accuracy with masks added as criteria for Indian public face recognition system
The biometric facial recognition system being stood up by India’s National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) will have to be capable…
US DOJ wants biometric identification SDK for prisoner transfer application
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Marshals Service has announced a contract opportunity to supply a software development kit to build…
