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Delaware Sets October 5 Switch to IDEMIA Fingerprint Kiosks
Delaware’s State Bureau of Identification will move fingerprinting services at all its locations to IDEMIA SMART-E kiosks on October 5, replacing the…
Italy’s Police Biometrics Decree Takes Effect With Targeting and Oversight Rules
Italy’s new police biometrics framework took effect on September 30, establishing targeting, authorization and data-handling rules for facial recognition and…
South Africa Demonstrates Smartphone Digital ID With Selective Sharing
South Africa’s Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber has demonstrated a smartphone-based digital identity that lets its holder decide which personal details to…
Senses Adds Facial Attendance and Engagement Analytics to Classroom Panels
Senses Electronics has introduced SenseEye, a facial-recognition attendance and classroom-analytics system that uses cameras on its interactive teaching panels…
Cambridge Plans First Live Facial Recognition Deployment
Cambridgeshire Constabulary plans to use live facial recognition in Cambridge city centre for the first time on Friday, October 2, following deployments in…
Travel Industry Coalition Seeks EU Rules for Voluntary Biometric Journeys
ACI EUROPE, Amadeus, IATA, IDEMIA Public Security and SITA have formed a travel-industry coalition calling for European Union legislation that supports…
Anthropic Faces Illinois Biometric Privacy Claims Over Claude ID Checks
Anthropic faces a proposed class action alleging that its identity-verification process for Claude collected Illinois users’ facial biometrics without the…
Mastercard Tests Intelligence Service to Identify AI-Agent Transactions
Mastercard is testing a transaction-intelligence service in the United States that estimates whether a payment was initiated by an artificial-intelligence…
UK Invites Providers to Test Machine-Readable Digital Identity Register
The UK’s Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, known as OfDIA, is inviting digital-verification providers to test the onboarding process for a…
Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Renews Call for Facial Recognition Legislation
Scottish Biometrics Commissioner Brian Plastow has renewed his call for primary legislation governing live facial recognition, while supporting its…