New international standard covers forensic biometrics in lab and field environments
A lunch talk by the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) untangles the forthcoming Forensic Sciences standard ISO/IEC 21043, in particular its…
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Police in US cities that ban facial recognition asking others to do it for them
A major report in the Washington Post has found that law enforcement officers in U.S. several cities where facial recognition…
Bermuda delays facial recognition deployment for national CCTV project
Bermuda’s government will not be deploying facial recognition capabilities in its CCTV system, at least for now, due to unspecified…
Florida Police deploy Idemia ABIS for latent fingerprint biometric analysis
Idemia Public Security North America has announced the implementation of its automated biometric identification system, Storm ABIS, by forensics examiners…
UK invests in 4 police vans with live facial recognition to cut knife crime
The UK government has announced investments in live facial recognition and research and development for remote scanning technologies as it…
Discrimination concerns arise as NZ police expand biometric data use
Incorporating biometric data into policing raises concerns of bias and discrimination, particularly against Māori and Pasifika populations, a Māori technology…
Rights commission concerned about proposed facial recognition bill for Irish police
The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC) has stated that the legislation regarding the proposed implementation of facial recognition…
UK PM endorses live facial recognition in pre-election stump speech
With great danger comes technological innovation, says UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in a keynote speech for the Policy Exchange…
Indian police adopt facial recognition despite risk of massive data breaches
“Real-time facial recognition” typically refers to continuous biometric monitoring. But it applies equally as well to the experience of watching…
UK police have used PimEyes facial recognition search tool over 2000 times
It is becoming an apparent truth that, if the biometrics tools are there, people will use them. News out of…
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