Biometrics use by law enforcement criticized in three European countries
Europe continues to wrestle with privacy issues around the collection of sensitive biometric data by law enforcement. In France, Norway,…
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Final demo of EU’s D4FLY spots ID fraud
European Border and Coast Guard Agency Frontex has revealed its participation in the final demonstration of the D4FLY biometric project…
Spain deploying biometrics at Morocco land border for EES
A new border-transit biometric system will be installed between Morocco and the Spanish autonomous city of Ceuta, which tops the…
EDRi, Statewatch call for ban of EU-wide police facial recognition system
The European Commission’s ‘Prüm II’ legislation may amplify the risks of state overreach and biometric mass surveillance and should therefore…
European digital ID must have further security safeguards, Czech EU presidency says
A couple of months after taking over from France as host of the presidency of the Council of the EU,…
IDC report projects AR/VR trend to boost biometrics spending in Europe
A study by market intelligence and advisory services organization, International Data Corporation (IDC), suggests there will be increased spending by…
Frontex wants information about tools for manually sorting immense biometric databases
Do you make software tools that are used for manually comparing biometric data? Frontex, or the European Border and Coast…
Trust issues could be a problem for US-EU biometric data sharing plan
Ripples continue to spread after news broke that the United States wants to link biometric law enforcement databases across the…
Czech presidency hopes to shape AI Act, delist biometric categorization as high-risk
The European Union’s AI Act may be seeing some changes including a narrower definition of what AI is and a…
US ‘signs deal to receive UK police biometrics,’ pressures EU countries to follow suit
The UK government has agreed to share records from its police biometrics database with U.S. border guards as part of…
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