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Punjab Adds 100 Biometric Devices for Identifying Unclaimed Bodies
Punjab’s Safe Cities Authority has acquired 100 biometric devices designed to help identify unclaimed bodies and locate missing people across the Pakistani…
Precise Biometrics Signs India and Vietnam Distribution Deal With AqTronics
Precise Biometrics has signed a non-exclusive distribution agreement with AqTronics covering biometric hardware sales in India and Vietnam. The agreement…
South African Police Tender Makes Facial Recognition Mandatory for Body Cameras
The South African Police Service has made facial recognition a mandatory component of a three-year tender for body-worn cameras, vehicle dashboard cameras and…
DHS Opens $440 Million Governmentwide Biometric Device Competition
The US Department of Homeland Security has opened a governmentwide competition worth more than $440 million for biometric capture devices and related…
Clearview AI Tests InquiryIQ Web Research Prototype for Police
Clearview AI has built and tested InquiryIQ, an unreleased artificial intelligence prototype designed to expand a face-search lead into a wider online profile…
Google Adds Direct Passkey Transfers Between Android Password Managers
Google has introduced an Android transfer system that lets users move passwords and passkeys directly between supported password managers without first…
Steam Uses Credit Cards for Australia’s New R18+ Age Checks
Valve has introduced credit-card age checks for Australian Steam users who want to view store pages for its R18+ computer games and other mature content. The…
Philippine Agencies Discuss PhilSys-Based Age Checks for Social Media
Philippine government agencies have opened a public-private discussion on using the PhilSys national identity system to verify the ages of social-media users.…
Microsoft Tracks Passkey-Themed Social Engineering Behind Cloud Data Theft
Microsoft has identified a social-engineering campaign in which attackers pose as IT support staff and use false passkey or multifactor-authentication setup…
UIDAI Launches Native Aadhaar Face Authentication SDK and Test Sandbox
India’s Unique Identification Authority has released a software development kit that lets Android and iOS apps perform Aadhaar face authentication without…