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…

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…

Biometrics Becoming Part of School Fabric

By Jim Nash Three school systems, two in the U.S. and the other in Brazil are…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Bar for UK Crimes Prosecuted with Live Facial Recognition Could Get Much Lower

By Jim Nash Pledges by the UK government that its use of biometric data in law…

Historic Penalty Decision in BIPA Case Shows the Need to Take Biometric Privacy Seriously

By Jim Nash Biometrics in one U.S. jurisdiction is now officially a live electrical wire dancing…