Nepal Police is using DNA analysis, fingerprints and newly developed photo-matching software to identify people killed in the Bhote Koshi floods. The force’s Disaster Victim Identification software compares photographs of […]

The US Department of Health and Human Services is assessing vendors that could provide mobile biometric and identity-document collection services nationwide for the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Unaccompanied Children Bureau. […]

Albania’s Centralized Purchasing Operator has opened a tender worth approximately €2.4 million for a new police biometric identification center. The planned facility will combine fixed enrollment stations and portable devices […]

Croatia opened a €1.2 million tender to upgrade and maintain fixed and portable fingerprint-capture workstations for the expanded Eurodac system in Croatia.

Spain’s annual Operation Crossing the Strait has begun, and for the first time it is running with biometric border controls for non-EU travelers as the summer transit between Europe and […]

NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health system in the United States, has disclosed a data breach that exposed personal, medical, financial, and biometric information, including fingerprints and palm […]

Rank One Computing Corporation has achieved the top performance ranking in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Evaluation of Latent Fingerprint Technologies (ELFT), earning the lowest False Negative Identification […]

MetaOptics Ltd, a Singapore-based metalens technology company, has released details of a next-generation compact optical module for 3D non-contact fingerprint biometrics, targeting a total module thickness of approximately 5mm that […]

Europe’s top data protection authority has raised significant concerns about the technical rules governing the Prüm Router, the EU system that enables automated cross-border exchange of biometric data among member-state […]

Hungarian border authorities have launched a pilot program to test contactless biometric capture at Schengen border points, working with German startup IDloop and the country’s Border Policing Innovation Program (HIP). […]