The UK’s new Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner is breaking from his predecessors on the subject of facial recognition. In that regard, Commissioner Fraser Sampson told the Financial Times that […]

IDEMIA will be participating in a new digital identity pilot in the United Kingdom. The trial concerns the British government’s Document Checking Service (DCS), which cross-reference’s someone’s passport information with […]

Ahead of the finalization of the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Age Appropriate Design Code, and in acknowledgment of Safer Internet Day, Yoti recently published a blog post detailing how […]

Credas and the UK’s Surveillance Camera Commissioner are among those asking for clearer guidelines for the public use of facial recognition in the country. The interested parties are specifically looking […]

The Home Office of the United Kingdom has announced that the U.K. is joining China’s FaceR2VM project, which aims to develop facial recognition technology to be able to identify people […]

Police authorities in the UK are being challenged over their use of public surveillance systems based on facial recognition technology. An organization called Big Brother Watch, working with politician Baroness […]

The UK’s National DNA Database Ethics Group has been renamed the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), and will have an expanded focus. The organization is a public agency charged […]

BAM Western, a UK-based construction company, has chosen BioSite as its standard access control solutions provider. BioSite is a provider of biometric access control technology, and is focused on the […]

Allevate’s MXSERVER is now available for use by UK government agencies, the company has announced. MXSERVER is a big data intelligence solution centered on facial recognition. It’s designed to trawl […]