Biometrics Roundup: Some Good News and Some Very Bad News
This week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ top stories offers a few upbeat news items, and one piece of very bad news that also understandably attracted a lot of attention from readers. […]
This week’s roundup of FindBiometrics’ top stories offers a few upbeat news items, and one piece of very bad news that also understandably attracted a lot of attention from readers. […]
The Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office in Florida has expanded its relationship with BIO-key. The Elections Office had previously deployed BIO-key’s EcoID scanner back in 2019, and will now […]
The Governmental Accountability Office (GAO) has released an extensive report on the facial recognition habits of US government agencies. The report includes feedback from 24 organizations, 19 of which are […]
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 Russian facial recognition specialist NtechLab is expanding into the Middle East. The company has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi, from which representatives will market its products to […]
The Czech Ministry of the Interior has officially begun issuing the country’s new citizen identity cards that feature a contactless chip that carries the biometric data of the cardholder. The […]
A series of boycotts is throwing the legitimacy of Iraq’s upcoming election into doubt. The election was originally supposed to take place in June, but was pushed to October 10 […]
Ukraine will soon begin collecting the biometric data of those who apply for a visa to enter the country. The new policy will go into effect on January 1, 2022, […]
iDenfy is pitching its face-based identity verification solution to the Lithuanian government. The company is headquartered in the country, and is specifically encouraging the government to use its facial recognition […]
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has granted formal approval to a pair of Ping Identity access management solutions. The agency has specifically added the PingFederate and PingAccess offerings to […]
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