1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (350+ words) Resumed deployments of live facial recognition from Corsight AI by Essex Police have led to dozens of arrests without a single false positive match across scans of 353,000 faces, according to a company announcement. Essex Police began redeploying the biometric technology…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (400+ words) New Zealand’s Policing Amendment Bill takes in expanded biometric collection. The country’s justice select committee has recommended the bill be passed, but its report displays deep unease about how far police powers would stretch and how biometric surveillance could expand…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (463+ words) The Office of the Information Commissioner of Western Australia (OIC WA) says it was not invited to participate in any formal consultation or input process around the state police force’s trial of overt live facial recognition technology. The Western Australia…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (507+ words) Confusion, and the need to dispel it, is the central theme of a response from the UK’s regulator for police use of biometrics to recent policy proposals. Webster responded to the reform proposals contained in the Independent Review of Police…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (871+ words) A new appeal from the head of the Metropolitan Police aims to lay out the benefits of live facial recognition, as the force looks to pursue digital transformation in law enforcement – and rolls out new static LFR cameras in central…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (330+ words) The European Commission has requested public feedback on its plans for a reciprocal biometric data-sharing framework for police with non-EU nations. The public consultation period for the proposed regulation opened on June 12 and runs through August 7, 2026. Under the Prüm international…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1047+ words) The Sparks, Nevada Police Department is moving forward with a federal grant-funded facial recognition project officials say will help investigators identify suspects in retail theft cases, but which is drawing scrutiny because of its regional structure, use of police image…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (241+ words) The Scottish privacy commissioner continues to express consternation over the potential use of live facial recognition by Police Scotland....

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (748+ words) The UK’s two Biometrics Commissioners shared cautionary observations about the use of facial recognition in law enforcement over the weekend in a report that raises several important questions about how police and retailers are using the technology. The UK needs…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (423+ words) Last week London became a city of two tales. Two different surveillance stories show how the UK’s approach to biometric surveillance prefers flexibility over certainty and why, in my view, we need more of the latter. Defending the system, the…...