Scotland declares digital identity pilot a success, UK’s service faces latest call to shut down
The UK government’s digital identity service has returned to its usual pattern of negative feedback and calls for its closure,…
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A year later and UK passport biometric face scan system still favors white males
Almost a year to the day after media stories questioned bias in UK biometric face scanning systems, it appears little…
UK combines surveillance, biometrics commissions but there are questions
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says less is more when it comes to regulating biometrics and surveillance camera activity, but…
Allevate facial recognition update launched to UK G-Cloud for forensic, live surveillance applications
Allevate has launched an update of its biometric facial recognition solution to availability on the UK’s G-Cloud 12 to provide forensic…
UK Biometrics Forensics Ethics Group to advise Home Office on data protection and policing initiatives
The UK’s Biometric Forensics Ethics Group (BEFG) has its marching orders for the upcoming year, which include organizing working groups…
Mitek ID document and selfie biometric checks help Gov.UK Verify scale onboarding as demand spikes
Selfie biometric technology supplied by Mitek and Digidentity helped scale the operations of Gov.UK Verify to handle the massive influx of…
Research on biometrics used at music festivals yields some surprising results
Music festivals rarely yield more than sunburns, hangovers and romanticized memories. But a pair of UK researchers managed to pull…
Uber says face biometrics address problems as its critical London license appeal kicks off
Uber, the company everyone loves to hate until they have somewhere to go or some money to invest, this week…
Lack of digital ID system costing U.S. government billions, experts tell FedID event audience
The U.S. government’s lack of a digital ID system has made it unable to prevent billions of dollars in losses…
Fulcrum Biometrics acquires DelaneyBiometrics to add cloud portfolio and European footprint
UK-based DelaneyBiometrics, which provides biometric cloud-based solutions for time and attendance and access control, has been acquired by Fulcrum Biometrics,…
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