The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is moving forward with a large-scale refugee registration drive in Pakistan. The Documentation Renewal and Information Verification Exercise (DRIVE) is being carried out in collaboration […]

Policy and technology experts have added another wrinkle to the evolving identity crisis in Afghanistan. The story started to take shape a couple of weeks ago, following reports that the […]

The Taliban’s recent offensive in Afghanistan has raised serious concerns about the US government’s careless use of biometric technologies. Security experts sounded the alarm after the Taliban claimed the capital […]

The Chinese gaming giant Tencent will be using facial recognition technology to limit the amount of time that minors spend in front of a screen. The new face-based Midnight Patrol […]

The Caribbean Commonwealth of Dominica will soon be rolling out a new biometric passport for its citizens. The document will formally debut on July 19. Citizens who renew their passports […]

QIAGEN and Verogen have joined forces to raise their collective profile in the forensics market. The two companies have signed a distribution agreement that gives QIAGEN the right to sell […]

The government of South Australia is boasting about the high compliance rate for a new law that requires the use of facial recognition in many gambling establishments. The law went […]

The government of Nepal is hoping that its new National ID cards will help reduce the number of dead bodies that go unidentified or unclaimed within the country. The IDs […]

Ideal Innovations, Inc. (I3) has launched a new Proficiency Test to evaluate people’s ability to compare faces on the job. The company’s new Facial Identification Proficiency Test has received the […]

South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is hoping to use biometric data registration to prevent identity theft within the country. To that end, the agency has released a draft […]