UK awards NEC $25M facial recognition policing contract
UK’s law enforcement agencies have awarded a £20 million ($25.2 million) contract for live facial recognition to three suppliers, including…
Home Office Biometrics (HOB)
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UK Home Office, police body resist biometrics transparency
UK airport passengers have been secretly checked while boarding aircraft by face biometric scanning cameras under a scheme backed by…
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…
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…
