John Howard reflects on DHS biometrics evaluations and the AI testing landscape
When John Howard began working for SAIC at the Maryland Test Facility, biometrics was an emerging technology supported by a…
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Northern Ireland studies live facial recognition use by UK police
Northern Ireland may soon follow England and Wales in allowing police to use facial recognition to generate investigative leads based…
ICE’s facial recognition app is new, but the NEC tech behind it is well known
The revelation that the Mobile Fortify app used by ICE to identify suspected immigration procedure violators, and increasingly protestors, uses…
ICE, FBI expand facial recognition use to protest investigations
Federal use of facial recognition and related surveillance technologies has expanded decisively into the monitoring of domestic protest activity, according…
Singapore tells Meta to expand facial recognition as scam ad concerns in APAC grow
Scams have proliferated on social media and Asia has suffered a plague of it. The surge in social media-enabled scamming…
Official Recognition – ‘transformative technology’ at the heart of UK police reform
By Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics & Surveillance Camera Commissioner Live facial recognition (LFR) and other transformative technologies are at…
US Justice Department’s search of reporter’s phone, laptops raise biometric, privacy concerns
When federal agents searched the home of Hannah Natanson, they were not just pursuing a leak investigation. They were taking…
Biometrics’ growing role in daily life necessitates liveness detection upgrades
Biometrics policy collides with liveness detection and facial recognition in the weeks top headlines on Biometric Update, as digital services…
ICE facial recognition app Mobile Fortify powered by NEC
When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its 2025 AI Use Case Inventory Wednesday, it included the first official…
Project 06 drives Vietnam’s digital transformation
Vietnam is moving rapidly to embed biometrics into its national digital identity framework, with multiple government initiatives reshaping how citizens…
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