As UK sets date for general elections, criticism piles on voter ID requirement
The UK’s first national election to require a photo ID document has finally set its date to July 4th. But…
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UK’s photo ID requirement for voting stirs backlash against government
The UK is planning to introduce mandatory photo identification for voters during national elections for the first time this year….
Clearview AI tops 40 billion reference images in facial recognition database
Clearview AI’s reference database for facial recognition searches has surpassed 40 billion images, double its volume of just 20 months…
Germany introducing biometric photo standard requirement for ID documents
Germany has announced that its citizens will be required to submit photographs in line with biometrics standards to obtain identification…
Trust Stamp launches biometric facial image quality assessment API
Trust Stamp has published a white paper playing up its facial attribute and image quality assessment API, which the vendor…
Tech5 develops biometrics checking capability to protect printed IDs against fraud
Tech5 has launched a digital security capability using biometrics to guard against the substitution or manipulation of the facial image…
Native smartphone face biometrics can be spoofed; UK consumer groups freaks out
Smartphone face biometrics from many leading brands are vulnerable to spoof attacks with 2D photographs, according to a new report…
UK’s first vote with photo ID requirement in the books; people turned away
Products in search of a problem are nothing new, but biometric identification employed to eliminate voter fraud in developed economies…
Datasets driving facial recognition development fueled by data privacy violations
The shift from manual feature engineering to neural networks that supercharged facial recognition also created a market for face data…
Pakistan ID authority shares data of 4K wanted people for biometric matching
NADRA has shared the images of more than 4,000 wanted individuals with a public safety body to enable biometric matching…
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