West Virginia to offer Voatz biometric voting app statewide for overseas military
Military service personnel from West Virginia serving overseas will be able to vote in the November U.S. midterm elections with…
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U.S. visitor overstays motivating biometric exit continue gradual decline
The number of suspected in-country overstays by U.S. visitors in 2017 declined to just under 607,000 from just under 629,000…
More calls to investigate facial recognition technology
A group of U.S. legislators have called on the Government Accountability Office to examine and evaluate commercial and law enforcement…
US House Homeland Security Committee advances biometric data sharing bill
The United States House Homeland Security Committee has advanced the Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program (BITMAP) Authorization Act of…
NYC, Perth deploy public facial recognition while London ethics panel calls for greater transparency
New public deployments of facial recognition have been announced for Perth, Australia, and New York City, while an ethics panel…
U.S. judge rules federal investigators can use suspect biometrics to unlock devices
A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that federal investigators can use a suspect’s biometric features to unlock electronic devices,…
New York, DHS testing voting systems cybersecurity
The New York State Board of Elections—in concert with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in partnership with the Division…
US Dept of State intends to award IDEMIA with facial recognition contract
Earlier this week the U.S. Department of State’s Consular Affairs office announced its plan to issue a new sole source…
Audits of DHS, other agencies found access control problems, but didn’t address biometrics
The role of biometrics in a variety of critical US government agencies’ computer access controls which were found deficient during…
Sciometrics presents fully automated latent fingerprint matching at Innovators’ Showcase
Sciometrics has presented its Lights-out Latent fingerprint matching technology to U.S. government personnel at the Innovators’ Showcase in McLean, Virginia….
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