Last month, Fingerprint Cards issued a quarterly update featuring unusually stark language about the state of the mobile fingerprint sensor industry. The company, which has made its name over the […]

[Update 09/13/22: The US Embassy in Monrovia is now formally denying having sent a diplomatic note to Liberia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs requesting a sample voter registration card, according to […]

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 […]

A multi-partisan group of British lawmakers is pushing the government to blacklist camera equipment from Hikvision and Dahua. The group is made up of 67 MPs and Lords from across […]

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 […]

A Chinese research facility is coming under fire for developing an extremely invasive social profiling tool. The Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center unveiled its solution in a video posted to […]

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 […]

Hong Kong officials are playing down the presence of face biometrics capabilities in the state’s contact tracing app after they were exposed by FactWire, a Hong Kong-based investigative journalism agency. […]

US authorities are considering adding China-based biometric surveillance specialist Hikvision to a more severe blacklist, according to a Financial Times report. The company had previously landed on the US Entity […]

Fraser Sampson, the United Kingdom’s Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner, is encouraging government agencies in the UK to blacklist Hikvision when procuring new technologies. Hikvision is a camera manufacturer and […]