Motorola to add facial recognition to mobile policing app Pronto
Motorola Solutions has announced a trial of facial recognition capabilities on its mobile policing app Pronto, which already supports fingerprint…
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UK biometric ethics group to consider implications of gait and voice recognition
Gait and voice biometrics are becoming more interesting to government and law enforcement agencies, prompting a need for ethical guidance,…
Multimillion pound contracts keep coming for UK Government Digital Service’s One Login
The UK’s Government Digital Service is continuing to award contracts as it develops the One Login digital identity service for…
Mastercard digital ID app gets UK green light, launches NSW pilot program
Mastercard has announced it’s now certified under the UK’s Digital Identity and Attributes Trust Framework (DIATF) as an identity provider….
Biometric Schengen Information System goes live, UK readies ETAs
The European Union’s upgraded Schengen Information System (SIS) for security and border management is now in operation, incorporating biometrics of…
Channel Islands begin accepting French ID cards, quietly drop Brexit entry requirements for CTA
Jersey has been given UK permission to run a pilot over the summer to allow French day-trippers to visit the…
Stamps and surveillance: Macron seeks to delay EES biometrics until after Olympics
French president Emmanuel Macron intends to delay the introduction of the biometric Entry Exist System (EES) until after the Paris…
‘New and improved’ UK GDPR to save £4.7B over ten years, ensure data adequacy
When the UK left the European Union, if effectively copy pasted the GDPR to create the near identical UK GDPR….
Digital platform launched to fight exploitation and fraud in construction industry
A new platform designed to combat modern slavery and fake credentials by verifying UK construction worker digital identity and qualifications…
UK businessowners see qualified certificates as expensive, not worth the effort
Cost is the most meaningful hurdle to be surmounted in efforts to make qualified digital signatures commercially viable in the…
