Cambridge, MA, Becomes Latest City to Ban Facial Recognition
The Cambridge City Council has unanimously voted to ban the public use of facial recognition technology. The decision makes Cambridge the fourth (and largest)…
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Indian Partners Brief Afghanistan Officials on Aadhaar ID Program
“Aadhaar is the world’s most ambitious civil biometric identity program. Indian citizens are assigned an Aadhaar number connected to biometric registration…
NIST Study Confirms Racial Bias of Many Facial Recognition Algorithms
A study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released last Thursday shows that many of the facial recognition algorithms used today…
Laxton Integrates ImageWare Software into Chameleon Devices
ImageWare has joined forces with the Laxton Group to provide law enforcement agencies with better biometric identity tech for use in the field. To that end,…
Florida’s Orange County Deploys BIO-key Tech to Secure Elections Process
BIO-key is once again providing biometric technology to help secure the elections process in the state of Florida. This time around, the Supervisor of…
Second Massachusetts Town Bans Facial Recognition
The town of Brookline, Massachusetts, has officially moved forward with its facial recognition ban. The proposed ban was first tabled back in August with the…
How Do We Feel About the Government’s Use of Biometrics?
FindBiometrics’ annual Year in Review survey asks our industry a number of compelling questions, but one of the most interesting of them in 2019 is surely the…
Quebec Government Mulls Biometric Options for Digital ID Program
The Quebec Government has begun looking into the creation of a digital identity profile for every citizen to increase the security of private data. Éric Caire,…
Comparitech Study Details World’s Most Intrusive Biometric Programs
Comparitech has released a comprehensive report that evaluates the pervasiveness of biometric technology in 50 different countries. The report rated the…
CBP Abandons Plans for Mandatory Facial Scans of U.S. Citizens at Airports
The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency has announced it has abandoned its plans to require U.S. citizens entering and exiting the country to submit to…