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SuperCom has found another customer for its PureSecurity Offender Tracking Suite. This time around, the company will be providing the solution for a government agency in Canada, as part of a deal that was reached through SuperCom’s partnership with a Canadian offender tracking company. SuperCom did not disclose the names of either its customer or […]
IDEMIA has extended its business relationship with Australia’s New South Wales Police Force, with the two parties agreeing to a six-year contract for the support and maintenance of IDEMIA’s LiveScan fingerprint reader solution. The LiveScan readers are already in place in 142 police stations across the state of New South Wales, and are used to […]
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is looking to connect its facial recognition program with a gang intelligence app that was developed by a district attorney’s office in Pennsylvania in an effort to improve data collection and coordination. As NextGov reports, the Gang Intelligence Application (GIA) — developed by the Office of the District Attorney of […]
The Department of Homeland Security is setting up a new system to manage biometric records, and is seeking to get it exempt from the Privacy Act. In a posting on the Federal Register, the DHS explained that the proposed “Department of Homeland Security/ALL-043 Enterprise Biometric Administrative Records (EBAR) System of Records (SOR)” will allow it […]
“Like other clients including the Singapore Police Force, the Dubai Police Force is using BIO-key’s technology internally, with officers and staff undergoing biometric authentication to access digital assets.” The Dubai Police Force is expanding its use of biometric authentication solutions from BIO-key, the company has announced. Coming after an initial deployment last year, the expansion […]
A group of London artists known as the Dazzle Club are using makeup to protest the Metropolitan Police’s rapidly expanding face-based surveillance program. To that end, the group has been going on monthly walks through the city while wearing makeup that is designed to hide their faces from the city’s facial recognition cameras. The makeup […]
The San Diego Police Department (SDPD) and the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office have banned the use of Clearview AI within their offices. However, both organizations admitted that they did not do so until after they had taken advantage of the free trials that Clearview offered to law enforcement agencies and other parties. The […]
The New York Police Department has officially announced its facial recognition policy, laying out guidelines to which its officers must adhere. In a statement, the NYPD emphasized that facial recognition technology is just one tool – albeit a useful one – in its police investigations, and not a determining agent in itself. “The NYPD has […]
Law enforcement officers in India have used facial recognition to arrest more than 1,100 people in what may be one of the more sweeping applications of biometric state surveillance. The arrests were made following two days of rioting in New Delhi on February 25-26. Indian home minister Amit Shah has since admitted that Indian […]
Another British privacy watchdog is asking the police to suspend their use of facial recognition, at least until the potential impact of face-based surveillance is more completely understood. The latest request was issued by the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and it echoes similar demands from organizations like Big Brother Watch and Amnesty International. […]
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