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…...

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…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (646+ words) The Swedish parliament, the Riksdag, voted on the government-proposed law on police use of AI for real-time facial recognition earlier this week. The new regulation is expected to come into force on July 1st, 2026 alongside amendments to the Public Access and…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (693+ words) London’s Metropolitan Police will begin releasing more body-worn camera footage as part of a transparency initiative aimed at providing greater context around police incidents. The move, however, has renewed scrutiny of how bodycam footage is used within the UK’s growing…...

4+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (565+ words) The London police have published the results of the UK’s first permanent live facial recognition (LFR) test: During the six-month pilot, the static LFR camera system contributed to more than 170 arrests, while crime in the area fell 10.5 percent compared to…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago   (417+ words) New South Wales (NSW) has kicked off a pilot of its new digital identity app on Wednesday, inviting residents of the Australian state over the age of 16 to participate in the testing. Users will be able to create a NSW…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (484+ words) Australia’s national digital ID program will undergo a formal audit this year. The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) is set to examine governance, risk management and evaluation of the AU$1 billion-plus scheme (US$674 million). The inquiry comes roughly a year…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (711+ words) The Scottish Biometrics Commissioner is proposing its own blueprint and legal framework for the use of biometric data in law enforcement across England and Wales. The biometric technology watchdog has backed the creation of statutory codes of practice that would…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1114+ words) By the end of 2025, it was no longer credible to describe the U.S. government’s use of biometrics in immigration enforcement as fragmented, experimental, or limited to border checkpoints. Over the course of the year, a steady accumulation of procurement records, privacy…...