States ponder facial recognition regulation, survey shows heightened privacy concerns in China
More regulations for facial recognition may be coming, with NJ considering a wide-ranging proposal, and a new Amnesty International campaign…
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Police face and fingerprint biometrics programs meet backlash in India
Two cities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh are introducing separate biometric crime-fighting technologies that are causing serious concerns…
Aware launches flexible automated biometric identification system for civil ID and law enforcement
Aware has brought its automated biometric identification system (ABIS) for large-scale identification and deduplication to provide comprehensive biometric analysis and processing,…
Facial recognition and other biometrics targeted in data privacy legislation, but what will feds do?
Data privacy legislation is advancing in the U.S., though somewhat unpredictably, with different ramifications for biometrics vendors in different states….
Progress on government biometrics programs for elections, forensics and borders mixed
From elections to pandemic aid, and from police forensics to border control, government biometric and digital ID programs are the…
German police face biometrics use increasing rapidly, report shows
A document from the German parliament contains figures from the country’s federal ministry of the interior which indicate that the…
NEC targets major sales year for biometrics and touchless interactions in 2021
With mask-wearing relatively common among those with allergies in Japan even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, NEC was already working…
UK Home Office under fire after losing 150K biometric records from police database
The UK Home Office has accidentally deleted an estimated 150,000 arrest history records from the Police National Computer (PNC), including…
LAPD face biometrics policy approved by Commission
The Los Angeles Police Commission has unanimously approved the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD’s) police for the deployment of facial…
Clearview AI biometrics searches spike as police work to identify Capitol rioters
Alabama’s Oxford city police department is among U.S. law enforcement departments using Clearview AI’s controversial biometric facial recognition software to…
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