Kansas has successfully upgraded its fingerprint database, as announced by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI). The upgrade was facilitated by the approval of $6.89 million from the Kansas legislature, […]

Police Scotland has started distributing an information leaflet to all individuals in police custody who have their biometric data collected following an arrest, in an initiative resulting from recommendations made […]

The Scottish Biometrics Commissioner has published his office’s first annual assessment of law enforcement’s compliance with the Scottish Code of Practice, determining that Police Scotland has checked all the boxes. The Code […]

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the systematic storage of the biometric and genetic data of convicted criminals until their death is a violation of European Union law. The […]

Following unanimous support by Ministers of Scottish Parliament after a debate last Thursday, Humza Yousef, Scotland’s Justice Secretary, said that a biometrics commissioner would instil confidence in the general public […]

The New York Police Department has finally finished deleting what was an illegal database of fingerprints obtained from juvenile offenders more than two years after being ordered to do so […]

Argus TrueID has announced the acquisition of another Australian biometric services provider. Queensland-based Biometric Identity Solutions is now under the Argus TrueID umbrella thanks to a deal that reflects Argus’s […]