Lawmakers in Washington have introduced the “Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act”, which would ban the government from using facial recognition and other biometric technologies. The bill is aimed […]

The US Congress is signalling dissatisfaction and serious concerns with respect to the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system. (more…)

While a patchwork of biometric patient identification systems continues to emerge in the United States, French lawmakers have passed legislation that will make the technology a requirement in France. As […]

US lawmakers are suggesting that there is an even greater need for a biometric data protection bill in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. […]

The Security Industry Association (SIA) has voiced its support for two pieces of legislation that are currently making their way through Congress, and offered some feedback for lawmakers who are […]

Utah Governor Spencer Cox has officially signed a new data protection act into law. The Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) echoes similar legislation in California, Colorado, and Virginia, and will […]

A Colorado state Senate panel has advanced a bill that would dramatically limit the scope of public facial recognition programs in the state. Bill 22-113 would ban the use of […]

A pair of lawmakers believe that the European Union is still at least a year away from implementing meaningful laws to govern the use of facial recognition. The European Commission […]

Virginia lawmakers are reportedly planning to lift a police facial recognition ban less than a year after it was passed. The law was passed with strong bipartisan support last March, […]

American roads may soon be filled with cars that can tell when someone is trying to drive drunk. Such cars would come equipped with a breathalyzer (or some other system) […]