UK turns to better CCTV, facial recognition use for national knife crime strategy
The UK government has presented a new national strategy to tackle knife crime, which includes upgrading CCTV coverage to minimize…
Home Office Biometrics (HOB)
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Mastek win £49M deal to support UK Home Office Biometrics delivery
Digital engineering and cloud transformation firm Mastek has won a contract to engineer, integrate and develop the UK Home Office…
UK ETA, eVISA milestones position Entrust to expand citizen identity footprint
The UK’s Electronic Travel Authorization system and eVISA is backed of Entrust’s Citizen Identity Orchestration solution and scaling successfully, according…
Scottish Biometrics Commissioner lays out blueprint for regulating police use of biometrics
The Scottish Biometrics Commissioner is proposing its own blueprint and legal framework for the use of biometric data in law…
Report claims UK eVisa system uses migrants as digital ID testing ground
A new report raises alarm over the UK’s mandatory digital immigration status system, claiming that migrants may have been used…
UK facial recognition bias report reveals Home Office using outdated Cognitec software
Cognitec released its FaceVACS-DBScan 5.5 software for biometrics matching at scale in 2020. A biometric accuracy and bias assessment of…
Rights groups concerned over UK’s plan to use biometric age estimation on migrants
Rights groups and social work experts are expressing concerns about the UK’s plans to introduce biometric facial age estimation for…
UK Home Office holding remote biometric enrolment trial market engagement sessions
Say hello to BRET – the UK’s Biometric Remote Enrolment Trial. A post from the UK Home Office says it…
New UK facial recognition vans equipped with NEC software
Police in England and Wales are expanding their use of live facial recognition from NEC Software Solutions UK Ltd with…
UK’s biometric advisory group recommends voice recognition regulator
The UK should establish new regulatory bodies for voice recognition to mitigate concerns such as bias, data collection without consent…
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