One US School Backs Out of Biometrics Contract, Another is Going Big
By Jim Nash With almost no explanation, a high school in the U.S. state of Maine reportedly has backed out of a biometric identification contract….
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Ireland Shows How Police can Ignore Biometric Privacy Concerns and Promises
By Jim Nash Those who see face surveillance by law enforcement as a danger to civil rights keep hoping that their warnings will stir the…
Biometrics Becoming Part of School Fabric
By Jim Nash Three school systems, two in the U.S. and the other in Brazil are installing or updating biometric security system for students. The…
Deepfake Voice Attacks are Here to Put Detection to the Real-world Test
By Jim Nash It’s put up or shut up time for biometric software companies and public researchers claiming they can detect deepfake voices. Someone sent…
Mobile Driver’s Licenses are Almost Mainstream in the US
By Jim Nash Another couple U.S. states are considering the benefits of digital identification. New Mexico legislators, with the encouragement of the state’s motor vehicle…
US Wants Freer Hand Searching Norway Biometric Databases When Visitors Show Up
By Jim Nash The U.S. is making a new data-access demand of Norway in return for visa-free travel between them. There are reports that Washington’s…
US Lawmakers Attack Categories of Deepfake but Miss Everyday Fraud
By Jim Nash A pair of U.S. House of Representative members have introduced a bill intended to restrict unauthorized fraudulent digital replicas of people. The…
Facial Recognition by Police Could Come to Ireland Faster after Dublin Riots
By Jim Nash The politics of police facial recognition systems are changing in favor of deployment in Ireland after last week’s riot in Dublin. Proposals…
Watchdog Cries Foul over Scotland Police Biometrics-sharing Pilot Storing Data in US
By Jim Nash A Police Scotland biometric evidence-sharing pilot project has been accused of being not just needlessly risky but of being criminal by Scotland’s…
Biometrics Look Increasingly Likely for Schools Afraid of Gun Attacks
By Jim Nash When U.S. state of New York schools got the OK last week to use biometric systems short of facial recognition, the move…
German Kids Passports All Go Biometric Next Year
By Jim Nash Germany is doing away with children’s paper passports in favor of biometric documents with embedded electronic chips beginning next year. The children’s…
Biometrics Firms Caught in Data Privacy Complaints Turn to Arbitration
By Jim Nash Short of actually winning a biometrics privacy lawsuit in the U.S. states of Illinois and California there seems only one avenue for…
Detroit Police Change Facial Recognition Procedure as Falsely Accused Woman Sues
By Jim Nash Police leadership in the U.S. city of Detroit is reacting to a wrongful arrest lawsuit by defending facial recognition software and coming…
Battle Over Age Verification Heats Up In Increasingly Censorious US
By Jim Nash Depending on the point of view, online life in the United States is either marching toward safety for children or sliding into…