Chinese Police Use Facial Recognition to Find Child Abducted 30 Years Ago
Facial recognition has helped a Chinese couple find their son who was kidnapped 30 years ago. Mao Yin had been abducted in Xian while walking home with his…
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EFF Calls for Stricter Facial Recognition Regulations
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published the transcript of Jennifer Lynch’s testimony to the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the…
ID R&D Provides Passive Liveness Detection for Reconnect Tracking System
ID R&D has found another customer for its IDLive Face technology. The passive liveness detection solution will be used to keep tabs on people in the criminal…
Canadian Researchers Win Grant to Continue Biometric Wearables Study on Mental Health
A team of researchers led by Canada’s University of Regina that have been using biometric clothing in a study on the mental health of Royal Canadian Mounted…
SuperCom Lands Monitoring Contract with Canadian Government Agency
SuperCom has found another customer for its PureSecurity Offender Tracking Suite. This time around, the company will be providing the solution for a government…
IDEMIA Renews Biometrics Contract with Australia’s Largest Police Force
IDEMIA has extended its business relationship with Australia’s New South Wales Police Force, with the two parties agreeing to a six-year contract for the…
ICE Looking to Connect Facial Recognition System to Pennsylvania Gang App
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to connect its facial recognition program with a gang intelligence app that was developed by a district…
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…
Dubai Police Force Expands Use of BIO-key Biometric Tech
“Like other clients including the Singapore Police Force, the Dubai Police Force is using BIO-key’s technology internally, with officers and staff undergoing…
London Artists Wear Makeup to Protest the City’s Use of Facial Recognition
A group of London artists known as the Dazzle Club are using makeup to protest the Metropolitan Police’s rapidly expanding face-based surveillance program. To…