Poor biometrics options, understanding of DNA hindering UK refugee reunification
Officials with the UK Home Office responsible for decisions on refugee family reunification are struggling to understand key points about…
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UK grapples with border biometrics expansion and delays
The UK Home Office has provided key updates on its electric border management initiatives during a Justice and Home Affairs…
UK Home Office to test remote fingerprint enrolment via smartphone for entry
A notice from the UK government says the Home Office will conduct trials of remote and in person biometric fingerprint…
UK forensics database now counts 28.3 million fingerprints
The UK government DNA database has produced over 820,000 matches to unsolved crimes since 2001, new data on the use…
UK publishes tender for police facial recognition
The United Kingdom Home Office has issued a tender for a new national facial recognition software for policing amid increasing…
UK data watchdog to investigate country’s troubled immigration IT systems
After reports revealed that more than 76,000 people have been affected by biographical and biometrical data errors in the UK…
Contactless fingerprint biometrics move towards police deployment with UK trials
The performance of software and smartphone cameras for contactless fingerprint capture is promising enough to look towards a possible launch…
UK government finds Home Office Biometrics ‘achieves cost savings and value for money’
Accounting officers from the UK Government have evaluated the Home Office Biometrics (HOB) program and found that it “achieves cost…
UK biometric ethics group to consider implications of gait and voice recognition
Gait and voice biometrics are becoming more interesting to government and law enforcement agencies, prompting a need for ethical guidance,…
Fujitsu biometric self enrolment kiosks piloted for presentation attack detection
The Home Office in the United Kingdom will be running an unsupervised self-service kiosk trial in the UK relying on…
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