Civil society groups want broader restrictions on biometrics use in AI Act
More than 100 civil society groups and advocates have co-signed a letter calling on European Union lawmakers to restrict the…
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US oversight body demands biometrics privacy, training upgrades at DHS, FBI
The U.S. Government Accountability Office wants federal agencies to work on protecting the privacy and civil liberties of Americans in…
Outgoing UK commish leaves advice for law enforcement use of biometrics and drones
Professor Fraser Sampson, who recently announced that he will step down as the UK’s Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner at…
Arab security body wants to create a biometric fingerprint database
The Arab Interior Minister Council (AIMC), a body tasked with fighting crime in the Middle East, wants to create a…
IBM facial recognition contract provokes debate on specifics, and ‘general purpose’ fear
A contract won by IBM last month to supply facial recognition technology to UK border security and law enforcement has…
British govt wants new face biometrics software; industry says ‘not so fast’
The UK government is asking for information about new facial recognition technology even as a major manufacturers’ association demands clarity…
Hacktivists claim to expose facial recognition used by Iranian regime to catch dissenters
A hacktivist group says it has breached a software system that the Iranian authorities have allegedly been using to surveil…
Biometric wrist monitor tests the future of ankle bracelets in jail and at the border
U.S. law enforcement agencies at the national and county levels are testing biometric watches as a replacement for ankle bracelets…
Thales introduces multimodal biometric evidence suite for mobile forensics
A new software and hardware bundle to give police and security forces remote multimodal biometric identification capabilities has been unveiled…
Influential face biometrics group FISWG seeks feedback on 5 papers
The Facial Identification Scientific Working Group (FISWG) has published an ethics code for facial recognition users and a guide to…
