Second Florida police force seeks real-time facial recognition in apparent reversal
The office of a Florida Sheriff who told a state House Justice Committee that people are not comfortable with real-time…
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U.S. judge allows law enforcement to compel suspect to unlock smartphone with biometrics
A U.S. federal district court judge in Massachusetts has ruled that agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and…
IDEMIA launches mobile biometric fingerprint scanner for law enforcement
IDEMIA has launched a new handheld wireless device for law enforcement officers to perform fast biometric fingerprint identification in the…
Microsoft has turned down California agency and foreign government contracts for facial biometrics
A California law enforcement agency was denied the use of Microsoft biometric facial recognition technology in car and body cameras…
Mobile biometric device enables Florida police to identify high-quality fake passport
A recent arrest of an undocumented illegal alien holding a high-quality fake passport in Escambia County, Florida, demonstrates the value…
Privacy researcher ordered to return 20 accidentally shared pages on NYPD facial biometric system
Researchers at Georgetown University’s Center on Privacy and Technology must return 20 pages of confidential information about its biometric facial…
German police select JENETRIC fingerprint tech for biometric border security
JENETRIC announced that its LIVETOUCH QUATTRO tenprint scanner has been selected by the German Federal Police to equip the borders…
Axon says facial biometric software for police body and vehicle cameras not in development
After Axon was reportedly denied the use of facial recognition technology from Kairos, the body camera maker has invented its…
AMREL biometric smartphone module for police powered by Suprema fingerprint sensor
AMREL has launched the next generation of its single-finger biometric module powered by Suprema to extend fingerprinting capabilities to law…
Group of researchers calls for Amazon to stop selling biometric Rekognition to law enforcement
A group of 26 “concerned researchers” have called for Amazon to stop providing its biometric Rekognition service to law enforcement…
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