10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (436+ words) A better public understanding of how police in Scotland use biometrics and a series of reviews to provide assurance that they are doing so according to the law are central pillars of Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Dr. Brian Plastow’s plan for…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (498+ words) Long‑range iris recognition could rival facial recognition as the dominant biometric technology. That’s if AJ2 has anything to do with it. South Korean company AJ2 is positioning iris biometrics as the next big shift in the industry, arguing that the technology…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (391+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a sole source award to Bi2 Technologies for iris biometric recognition technology intended to let ICE agents and 287(g) law enforcement partners rapidly identify people during field operations, according to a redacted justification for other…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1043+ words) The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is moving toward a broader biometric enforcement architecture that would extend facial recognition and identity-matching tools from airport checkpoints and ports of entry into the field, including through a proposed smart glasses prototype for…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago   (479+ words) A long-awaited upgrade to Australia’s national fingerprint biometric system for law enforcement with technology from Idemia Public Security is finally complete, with the migration of the back-end system to the cloud. The upgrade is the first the Australian Criminal Intelligence…...

9+ mon, 2+ day ago   (495+ words) Cognitec released its FaceVACS-DBScan 5.5 software for biometrics matching at scale in 2020. A biometric accuracy and bias assessment of the software by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory for the Home Office was released last Thursday, with worrying results. Cognitec Marketing Manager…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1090+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are now using a mobile app that lets them scan a license plate with a phone and instantly pull up a vehicle’s travel history, ownership records, and associated personal data. It’s an enforcement capability…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1141+ words) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) intends to award Parsons Corp. a sole-source contract to support a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) biometric program used with foreign law enforcement partners, according to a redacted procurement justification that says the company’s systems are…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (439+ words) Dallas Police are considering expanding their use of Clearview AI’s facial recognition to less-serious crimes like trespassing and package theft. The plan, predictably, is facing some criticism. Originally adopted for serious felonies like murder and rape, Dallas Police are now…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (443+ words) The revelation that the Mobile Fortify app used by ICE to identify suspected immigration procedure violators, and increasingly protestors, uses face biometrics capabilities supplied by NEC has sparked renewed interest in how well the technology works, and where else it…...