Crossmatch palm scanner selected for UK Home Office’s FABrIC program
Northrop Grumman, a security firm and a technology integrator for the UK Home Office, will upgrade the current criminal booking…
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UK government seeking fingerprint technology for law enforcement
The UK government is looking to meet with biometric technology firms to help determine existing marketplace capacity to provide fingerprint…
Security cameras in the UK will scan thousands of soccer fans’ faces in June
This is a guest post by Kayla Matthews, a biometrics and technology writer. From airport body scanners to metal detectors…
Equifax survey finds that 56% of UK customers prefer biometric banking
Equifax has published new research that found that 56 percent of UK consumers would prefer to use biometric authentication over…
UK government’s position on facial biometrics database hit with liberal backlash
The UK government’s decision to allow police to store the facial biometric images of millions of innocent people on a…
UK biometrics commissioner criticizes plans for custody images database
The UK’s Biometrics Commissioner has condemned the government’s response to a High Court ruling from 2012, stating that the mass…
UK surveillance camera commissioner releases national strategy
UK surveillance camera commissioner Tony Porter has released a national strategy for how CCTV should be operated and to ensure…
UK police told to remove images of innocent people from police database on request
The UK home secretary has ordered UK police agencies to delete on request millions of images of innocent people illegally…
Rail Delivery Group proposes to integrate biometrics into Bluetooth ticketing service
Britain’s Rail Delivery Group has proposed to integrate fingerprint and iris scanning technologies into a Bluetooth and geolocation-based ticketing service,…
Reform releases study urging UK government to adopt AI, facial recognition
Think tank organization Reform has released a new study urging the adoption of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and…
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