FBI Greenlights RapidHIT DNA Booking System for Police Use in the US
The number of DNA searches in the US is likely to increase now that the FBI has given US law enforcement agencies access to a quick DNA identification system.…
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Former FBI Senior Executive Named to ImageWare Board of Directors
“Lauren possesses a truly unique combination of experience and skills that are well-suited to our Company’s near and long-term objectives in expanding the law…
FBI Using Facial Recognition to Identify US Capital Insurgents: Report
According to a report from Boston 25 News, federal authorities in the US are using facial recognition technology to sort through more than 100,000 pieces of…
CBP to Collect DNA Data for FBI
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will soon reach full operational capacity with its DNA collection program. The data will be added to the FBI’s…
FBI Upgrades Iris, Face Biometrics Tech
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced that an iris recognition pilot project that dates back to 2013 is expected to become a fully operation…
ID Talk Podcast: The Ongoing History of Law Enforcement, Military and Civil Biometrics with HID’s Russ Megonigal
At FindBiometrics we trace the evolution of our dynamic industry as it happens, and with the catalyzing pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic spotlighting the…
Secretive Government-funded Lab Developed Biometric Tech for FBI, CBP, and CIA: Report
“The nonprofit agency is not focused exclusively on biometrics, but works across a range of technologies, developing tools, for example, to hack IoT devices…
Iris ID Biometric Tech to Identify L.A. County Prisoners
“Whereas the county previously relied on a fingerprint and photo-based prisoner identification program, officers will now be able to take advantage of iris…
New DHS Biometric Records System to be Exempt from Privacy Act
The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a new system to manage biometric records, and is seeking to get it exempt from the Privacy Act. In a posting…
Apple at Centre of Fight to Unlock Pensacola Shooter’s iPhone
Apple is once again at the centre of a privacy debate over requests for the tech giant to unlock the iPhones of the shooter in a recent tragedy at a […]