UK police begins live facial recognition trials at railway stations
The UK police have kicked off a six-month pilot using live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance to monitor train stations. The…
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ICE’s facial recognition app is new, but the NEC tech behind it is well known
The revelation that the Mobile Fortify app used by ICE to identify suspected immigration procedure violators, and increasingly protestors, uses…
ICE, FBI expand facial recognition use to protest investigations
Federal use of facial recognition and related surveillance technologies has expanded decisively into the monitoring of domestic protest activity, according…
ICE facial recognition app Mobile Fortify powered by NEC
When the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released its 2025 AI Use Case Inventory Wednesday, it included the first official…
NEC gains accreditation for four digital identity products under NZ trust framework
NEC New Zealand is the first digital identity provider to be accredited under the government’s Digital Identity Services Trust Framework…
No false alerts in UK POC of live facial recognition for immigration enforcement
A single arrest was made following a live facial recognition match at a UK port during a November proof-of-concept trial,…
NEC launches fused face and iris biometrics system for on-the-move authentication
A new multimodal technology from NEC can identify people in motion with face and iris biometrics. The technology authenticates people…
Dubai launches city-wide biometric hotel check-in
Dubai is ready to overhaul its hotel arrival experience across the entire emirate with a one‑time contactless check‑in system. This…
NEC takes a stake in PopID, Tencent and Wink biometrics integrated with POS terminals
Major technology firms and payment providers are racing to replace cards and phones with face, palm and voice biometrics. Payments…
Live facial recognition vans spread across seven additional UK cities
UK police authorities are expanding their live facial recognition (LFR) surveillance program, which uses cameras on top of vans to…
