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…
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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…
Home Office to fund UK police’s joint forensics and biometrics program
The UK’s Home Office announced it will provide more than £26 million in additional police transformation funding in support of…
Genie CCTV fingerprint reader approved for UK government use
Genie CCTV announced that its flagship biometric fingerprint authentication system, VIRDI AC5000SC, has been approved for UK government use. The…
New UK national cybersecurity strategy includes FIDO authentication
The UK government has unveiled its £1.9 billion ($2.3 billion USD), five year UK National Cyber Security Strategy, in which…
UK consumer demand for banks to adopt iris recognition nearly doubles in two years
Intelligent Environments has released the results of its 2016 Future Password Index (FPI), which reveals that UK consumer demand for…
Allevate releases SaaS face recognition service on UK digital marketplace
Allevate is now offering MXSERVER on the UK Crown Commercial Service’s Digital Marketplace G-Cloud 8 Framework. Allevate’s SaaS G-Cloud offering…
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