Oosto offers advice on facial recognition implementations for stadium security
When violence occurs in stadiums and arenas, security staff are often not surprised by the identity of the perpetrators, but…
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Pakistan arrests suspects over digital ID fraud in floods cash relief program
There are already reports of fraud related to the distribution of relief funds to victims of recent flooding in Pakistan…
San Francisco cops a step closer to formalized access to private surveillance camera feeds
A final vote is still forthcoming, but San Francisco, famous for beckoning people to travel there with flowers in their…
Indian police deploy portable fingerprint biometric scanners and app to ID suspects
Police in Karnataka, India, have deployed portable scanners and a new app connected to the force’s automated fingerprint identification system…
Campaign groups demand new London police boss end facial recognition use on first day in job
Fourteen campaign groups including Big Brother Watch, Liberty and Black Lives Matter wrote an open letter to new London Metropolitan…
Pakistan safe city project stalls with nearly 1K facial recognition cameras not functioning
Since it was rolled out in 2016, the Lahore safe city project in Punjab province has been facing major challenges,…
NZ police illegally collecting biometric data from Māori, new investigation suggests
New Zealand police forces are unlawfully taking, storing, and using people’s private biometric information according to a joint investigation by…
Prosegur, Knightscope add facial recognition to physical security robots
Two companies in the biometric security space unveiled new tools, with Prosegur Security debuting a robot dog with facial recognition…
Albanian police deployed at UK port for biometric migrant identification
Albanian police forces will be deployed at the Dover port in the UK to help identify and deport illegal Channel…
SuperCom wins $33M biometric tracking contract with European customer
SuperCom is set to deploy its PureSecurity Electronic Monitoring (EM) Suite for a domestic violence monitoring, GPS Tracking of offenders…
