Indian Privacy Advocates Push for Stricter Facial Recognition Guidelines
Indian privacy advocates are once again pushing back against the country’s expanding facial recognition network, and are asking legislators to create clearer…
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CBP Uses Biometrics to Catch Criminal at Laredo Border
Biometric technology has led to the arrest of a fugitive at the Laredo land border in Texas. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) identified the suspect…
LA Police Commission Approves Continued Use of Facial Recognition
The Los Angeles Police Commission has given the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) permission to continue to use facial recognition, though it did place some…
Police Clearview Searches Went Up in Wake of Riots at Capitol Hill
Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That has confirmed that the use of his company’s controversial facial recognition platform skyrocketed on the day after last week’s…
EFF Recaps the Major Facial Recognition Laws Passed in 2020
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has recapped some of the key 2020 milestones in the battle against face-based surveillance. The organization called…
Public and Private Parties Push for Police Facial Recognition in the UK
Credas and the UK’s Surveillance Camera Commissioner are among those asking for clearer guidelines for the public use of facial recognition in the country. The…
Alaska Transitions to Updated Fingerprint Processing System
Alaska has officially updated its Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). The state’s biometric database has more than 600,000 fingerprints, gathered…
Revised Massachusetts Legislation Eases Police Biometrics Restrictions
The Massachusetts State Senate has passed a revised version of a police reform bill that was initially passed earlier this month. The revisions became…
Massachusetts Legislature Bans Police Use of Biometric Facial Recognition
Massachusetts is set to become the first state to ban the public use of facial recognition technology. To that end, both houses of the state legislature have…
LAPD Bans Use of Third-Party Biometric Facial Recognition Systems
The Los Angeles Police Department has announced that its officers are no longer allowed to use any third-party facial recognition software. The edict stops…