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By Joel R. McConvey

- Quebec’s provincial automobile insurance registry is bringing back its facial recognition program, which was suspended last year – this time,…

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By Chris Burt

- The fog of war is obscuring details about a pair of contracts involving facial recognition developers; one Russian, one Israeli.…

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By Joel R. McConvey

- Two of Norway’s biometrics providers have secured significant new deals tied to the identity card market. A press release says…

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By Chris Burt

- A joint investigation team told Pakistan’s Interior Ministry this week that a breach from NADRA’s national identity database has been…

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By Joel R. McConvey

- The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released a report to assess the potential privacy impacts of its new biometrics…

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By Ayang Macdonald

- About 80,000 primary school children, who do not have birth certificates, but who are preparing to write the First School…

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By Bianca Gonzalez

- It's been widely noted in the biometrics space that fraud has evolved with the rise of deepfakes, generative AI, and…

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By Joel R. McConvey

- The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has not yet gone public with its full interim policy on the use of…

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By Arun Shrestha

- By Arun Shrestha, CEO and co-founder of BeyondID Earlier this year, an employee in the finance department of a multinational…

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By Ayang Macdonald

- The CEO of Simprints Toby Norman says the company plans to release a full open source stack for its fingerprints…

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