UK Commissioner defends face biometrics use by police as practical necessity
Police have no choice but to use facial recognition, along with any other technologies that can help them fight crime,…
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Police facial recognition on images from US protest, social media in Canada questioned
A coalition of groups has written to the administrators of a facial recognition system used to identify a person accused…
Proposed AI and biometrics restrictions by EU draw mixed, muted reaction
Reaction is rolling in to the European Union’s attempt to coral artificial intelligence with regulation, which includes strict new proposed…
Illinois pols move face biometrics ban for undocumented immigrants
The Illinois state Senate has passed a resolution that would greatly restrict the access that immigration agencies within federal and…
Real-time facial recognition system deployment blocked by Italian data protection authority
The Italian data protection authority (Garante) has published a new document in which it declared the Sari Real Time facial…
Is the US getting serious about the trade in biometrics?
Two bills have been introduced in the U.S. Congress to end what now is a free-for-all among police and intelligence…
Law enforcement facial recognition examined as DHS called on to halt Clearview AI use
A coalition of more than 70 rights and civil liberties groups have called on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security…
ACLU seeks to make facial recognition use by police a civil rights issue with wrongful arrest suit
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Michigan, and the University of Michigan Law School’s Civil Rights Litigation…
Idemia upgrades INTERPOL multi-biometric system, extension to border stations planned
Idemia will supply its latest-generation multi-biometric identification system (MBIS) to INTERPOL for instant identification of criminal suspects with fingerprint and face…
Bhutan taps Papilon to create biometric database for law enforcement
The Department of Civil Registration and Census (DCRC) in Bhutan has announced a new program to capture residents’ biometric data…
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