FINRA certifies Telos ID’s biometric background check service
Telos ID announced that its FBI-certified fingerprinting service IDVetting has met the technical standards needed to achieve the Financial Industry…
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I3 to provide latent fingerprint support services to FBI bomb analysis center
Ideal Innovations announced today that it was recently awarded a contract supporting the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Terrorist Explosive Device…
Stakeholders split on London police use of public facial recognition as study shows 4 in 5 false positives
The Chair of the Metropolitan Police staff association Ken March has called China’s use of public surveillance with biometric facial…
FBI and TSA legal footing criticized at house committee facial recognition hearings
U.S. lawmakers criticized the FBI’s failure to implement five of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO’s) recommendations and expressed concern with…
FBI not following GAO recommendations for face biometrics but expanding iris recognition work
A series of six recommendations made by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to the FBI in May, 2016 to…
Home DNA test company courts controversy with FBI partnership
Home gene testing company Family Tree DNA is working with the FBI and providing access to its genealogy database for…
DNA processing carried out by DHS S&T for FBI, intel agencies
DNA “bio-forensic” data is being used by the FBI — and other law enforcement and intelligence agencies – to determine…
FBI trialing Amazon facial biometrics for video processing
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is piloting Amazon Rekognition to sort the enormous volumes of video footage it…
Suprema introducing FAP30 certified fingerprint scanner at Trustech 2018
Suprema announced it will showcase “the world’s slimmest fingerprint authentication scanner with FBI FAP30 certification” next week at Trustech 2018….
U.S. agencies working on standard for seamless communication between biometric databases
The U.S. Defense Department, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security are planning to establish a new standard in…
