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NZ Policing Bill raises MPs alarm over expanded biometric powers
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…...
South Australia Police seeks next-generation biometric capture system
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (246+ words) South Australia Police (SAPOL) has opened a tender for a full replacement of its fingerprint biometric capture system. SAPOL is also seeking modern workflow tools, updated user interfaces, secure storage and retention capabilities. It should have demographic data prefilling and…...
UK BSCC notes police biometrics procurement ‘issues,’ welcomes centralization
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…...
Irish regulators clash over legal terms in bill on police use of biometric recognition
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (576+ words) A law that would permit the Irish police to use retrospective facial recognition “lacks legal clarity” and could create tension with the EU AI Act, according to a legal expert and civil rights campaigners. The Irish Parliament Upper House is…...
Europe seeks feedback on plan for sharing biometric data with non-EU law enforcement
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…...
Scottish biometrics commissioner calls for LFR law before police deployment
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (580+ words) The Scottish Biometrics Commissioner has written to Scotland’s Minister of Justice, Neil Gray, urging the government to introduce primary legislation for law enforcement use of live facial recognition (LFR). “It is inconceivable that Police Scotland will not want equitability of…...
EU research projects target face morph attacks threatening border, identity systems
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (702+ words) The European Biometrics Association (EAB)’s recent morphing workshop highlighted two Horizon Europe research projects developing new defenses against face morph attacks targeting identity systems and border controls. Project EINSTEIN and the SafeTravellers project are working to improve morph attack…...
NIST sees biometrics developers closing in on operational morph detection | Biometric Update
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (544+ words) Presentations on the first day of the workshop focused on developments in morph creation, metrics for vulnerability to morphing and the potential of different kinds of morph attack detection (MAD) for use at different points in the identity lifecycle. Mei…...
The Gambia upgrades police forensics capacity with biometric system launch
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (394+ words) The Gambia has launched an Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) to strengthen criminal investigations in the country with forensic biometrics. Deployment of the fingerprint biometrics system was carried out through the AFIS Project of the Western African Police Information System…...
UK gov’t seeks covert surveillance tech in benefit fraud crackdown
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (380+ words) The UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has published a £2 million (US$2.7 million) tender seeking software and hardware for live surveillance, including video cameras that can covertly record footage from a vehicle. The call comes after the DWP significantly…...