India’s centralized biometrics systems allegedly increase exclusion they are intended to solve
The use of biometrics for an Indian government healthcare initiative has drawn intensive criticism from a researcher, who claims it…
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Will $500M for smart cities in historic US Senate spending bill fund biometric surveillance?
Half a billion dollars was written into the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill passed Wednesday by the U.S. Senate to pay…
In-car biometrics to detect drunk-driving could add to data build up
Advances in car-related technologies including biometric drink-driving detection and libraries of ‘AI models’ to select the best fit for camera-based…
Chinese biometrics research a problem for U.S. journal and Oxford University
The Chinese government keeps making biometrics research more lucrative, but for Western companies, it could be that it is becoming…
Amazon sees profit in your palmprint. Opponents see harmful surveillance capitalism
Days after privacy advocates asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to ban surveillance capitalism, particularly as practiced by Amazon, comes…
Israel could capture biometrics of all non-citizens entering the country
Governments around the world continue to draft and approve legislation to collect biometric data from arrivals into their countries and…
Increased interoperability of EU biometric databases may be impacting human rights
A new report in the European Journal of Law and Technology highlights a series of human rights concerns about the EU’s…
China court interpretation to limit use of facial recognition
The deployment of facial recognition in China looks set to change after the Supreme People’s Court issued a judicial ruling…
Nigerian States begin biometric registration for voters, stalemate persists in Liberia
Nigeria’s Lagos and Osun States have begun biometric data collection within the framework of the Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) exercise…
Global biometric surveillance developments draw regional concerns
Biometric surveillance is facing resistance globally. It is doubtless less successful than opponents would like but the resistance cannot be…
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