About two years ago, amid mass protests directed at police abuses and racial injustice, the city of New Orleans banned the use of facial recognition by law enforcement. And now, […]

England’s Cheshire county is outfitting its law enforcement department with facial recognition technology. The Cheshire Constabulary will be using facial recognition to speed up its investigations, and to try to […]

The European Commission is facing pushback from privacy advocates over proposed changes to the European Union’s Prüm data-sharing regulations. The original Prüm was passed in 2005, while a preliminary version […]

The accuracy of face-based identity verification technology is once again being called into question in the wake of a high-profile case of identity fraud. In the case, a New Jersey […]

The police force of one of Canada’s most prominent cities has deployed facial recognition technology from NEC to aid in its criminal investigations. Edmonton Police Service officials disclosed their use […]

Innovatrics is calling attention to one of the key advantages of its SmartFace Platform, at least when measured against more traditional surveillance systems. SmartFace is built with Innovatrics’ highly rated […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is arguing that law enforcement officers should not be able to collect someone’s DNA or perform searches in a consumer-facing genealogy database without first obtaining a […]

“It’s well-established that suspects can’t be forced to divulge the passcodes that would enable phone access, but there is growing debate about whether biometric data amounts to the same thing.” […]

Biometric technology has helped to crack open a 20-year-old murder case in Delray Beach, Florida. In August of 1998, 68-year-old Sondra Better was working alone in a consignment shop when […]