A federal judge has dismissed an almost identical pair of Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuits against Amazon and Microsoft in a ruling that could prove consequential for the biometrics […]

Chinese ride-hailing app Didi has been fined $1.2 billion by state regulators for data privacy and security violations, complicating Western political narratives that have led to warnings about China-made apps […]

Myanmar’s junta government is working on deploying China-made biometric surveillance systems in multiple cities, according to a new Reuters report. Citing multiple anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter, Reuters […]

Mastercard and Visa are using facial recognition technology whose algorithm is sourced from SenseTime, one of the Chinese AI firms that have been blacklisted by the US government, according to […]

The first six months of 2022 are now in the books. That means that it’s the perfect time to take another look at the state of the facial recognition industry. […]

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 […]

This week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ top stories covers a range of topics, which as a group help to illustrate just how messy the state of security technology is in the […]

ID Tech for June 16, 2022 After a previous ID Tech column laid out the challenging funding landscape that private biometrics companies will face now that the tech bubble has […]

FindBiometrics readers had their eyes on the big picture this week, if the latest roundup of our top stories offers any indication. Almost all concern macro-level events with ramifications across […]