Amnesty International is asking for digital volunteers to help map the locations of all of the public CCTV cameras in New York City. The organization is undertaking the initiative in […]

The UK’s new Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner is breaking from his predecessors on the subject of facial recognition. In that regard, Commissioner Fraser Sampson told the Financial Times that […]

The RCMP is once again facing heavy scrutiny for its questionable use of facial recognition technology. The latest controversy focuses specifically on the organization’s British Columbia Division, which violated the […]

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is in the process of drafting new policy guidelines to govern its use of facial recognition. The Department is hoping to complete a draft of […]

“The new laws include restrictions on how police can use facial recognition technology, with a prohibition on its use in real-time surveillance, with exceptions for investigations involving serious crimes.” The […]

INTEROL has renewed its biometric matching contract with IDEMIA. The two organizations first started working together in the year 2000, when IDEMIA outfitted INTERPOL with an Automated Fingerprint Identification System […]

The New York Police Department has drawn the ire of privacy advocates after misleading the public about its use of Clearview AI’s controversial facial recognition system. While the NYPD has […]

ImageWare has been a prominent name in the biometrics industry for decades, but over the past year the company has been in a phase of renewal that has demonstrated a […]

Virginia lawmakers have passed new regulations restricting the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, though the move has already led to some pushback from law enforcement officials. The […]

Lawmakers in Estonia have laid the groundwork for a central biometric database for use by government authorities. As BNS reports, the Estonian government has now approved a piece of legislation […]