Facial recognition technology leads to arrest of fugitive 14 years later
Using facial recognition technology, the FBI and the Diplomatic Security Service successfully identified and captured a man who had been…
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Explainer: Biometrics in Law Enforcement
Law enforcement is arguably the largest user of biometric technology and Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems (AFIS) is the police’s most…
GSA publishes location shortlist for FBI Consolidated Headquarters
According to a new report from the U.S. General Services Administration, a shortlist of locations for the new FBI Consolidated…
Top biometrics news stories, week of July 27
Biometrics Week in Review: FBI opens biometrics center, State Department request for information, Capital Hill concerns about fingerprint recognition, emerging…
FBI, Department of Defense to open new biometrics center in West Virginia
The FBI announced it is working with the Department of Defense to expand the FBI center campus in Clarksburg, West…
U.S. military completes test of biometrics system
The upgraded biometrics database repository at the U.S. Department of Defense, known as DOD ABIS, recently completed an internal test,…
U.S. spying on ordinary Internet users, Germany
According to a recent report published in the Washington Post, the U.S. intelligence community targets far more ordinary Internet users,…
EFF asks for privacy review of FBI biometrics database
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and several other organizations have formally asked the U.S. Department of Justice to review the…
Green Bit gets FBI certification for palm livescan device
Green Bit has announced that its MultiScan527 palm scanner has just been FBI-certified in accordance with the agency’s Appendix F image…
NGI: A closer look at the FBI’s billion-dollar biometric program
Representing a $1.2 billion investment by the U.S. federal government, the FBI’s massive Next Generation Identification (NGI) program is a…
