Estonia selects secunet biometric border control gates, Greece plans port system
Two of Estonia’s main air and land border checkpoints will operate the new generation of biometric automated secunet easygates, which…
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Pace of EU live biometric surveillance regulation prompts Reclaim Your Face movement
Dozens of allied European civil society groups, incredulous that few of the continent’s governments have, in their eyes, been able…
EU border control aid and connections to biometrics contractors alarm Privacy International
A relatively low-profile biometrics provider is receiving funds supplied as aid by the EU to help build ‘mass biometric systems’…
Transparency for public-private biometric deals? Not in the UK, at least
If every biometrics-gathering partnership between government and businesses was fully transparent, the idea of never ending, large scale facial recognition…
Challenging biometrics use in 4 not-at-all-easy steps
Acknowledging history is running against anyone opposing national biometric identity systems, a partisan privacy nonprofit has published a sizable guide…
Home Office signs £7M deal with IBM to build controversial biometric database
UK’s Home Office has signed a £7 million (US $9.2 million) contract with IBM to work with law enforcement in…
Biometric digital health credentials for NHL and London theatre, Privacy International warns of risks
As biometrics and other digital identity technologies are deployed to enable big league sports to resume operations, National Hockey League…
Biometrics in counter-terrorism report raises human rights, ethical issues
A new report on extreme surveillance and biometric data collection in the process of countering terrorism, and how human rights…
UK extends Gov.uk Verify funding, accused of risking asylum-seekers’ health with biometrics collection
Gov.uk Verify, U.K.’s digital identity system, will continue to receive funding, the Treasury decided, due to an increase in Universal…
Law enforcement increasingly using cloud extraction tech to collect social media and application data: report
Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using extraction technology to access data saved to the cloud, according to Privacy International citing…
