Mobile biometrics could play a high-profile role in the widening investigation into former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. John Eastman, a lawyer who allegedly […]

With privacy and government surveillance being increasingly salient issues in the discussion around biometric technologies, industry stakeholders may be overlooking the importance of political partisanship in the discourse, suggests a […]

Democrats in Congress are planning to reintroduce legislation that would ban federal agencies from using facial recognition technology. As Reuters reports, Representative Pramila Jayapal is one of the individuals behind […]

Polling officials were forced to resort to manual identity checks after the internet went out during Uganda’s presidential and parliamentary elections. The country had originally planned to rely on biometric […]

Stanford researcher Michal Kosinski has published a study that suggests that facial recognition can be used to predict someone’s political affiliation. In the study, Kosinski developed a facial recognition algorithm […]

The facial recognition provider XRVision is directly refuting a Washington Times report that claimed that the company’s software identified members of Antifa during the violent takeover of the Capitol building […]

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced that New York residents will no longer be allowed to participate in any Trusted Traveler Programs, including FAST, NEXUS, and Global […]

Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) has released a statement saying the implementation of a new biometric voter management system (BVMS) could save the country millions of dollars when compared to upgrading […]