A new biometric data collection system implemented on December 26 means travellers will be subjected to facial recognition ...

An employee scans the eyes of a woman for biometric data needed to apply for a passport, at the passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021. Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent ...

Donald Trump's administration is turning immigration screening into the backbone of a DNA surveillance system that reaches ...

The biometric market keeps growing and is replacing traditional authentication methods. Find out why this technology is good ...

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The Washington state House passed a bill 81-17 this week that would forbid businesses from obtaining or selling biometric information from individuals without their consent. The bill now goes to the ...

Biometric data has become one of the most relied-upon security tools across industries, devices and networks. Our fingerprint or face opens our phones and computers, and even our voices can be used as ...

In 2007, the United States military began using a small, handheld device to collect and match the iris, fingerprint and facial scans of over 1.5 million Afghans against a database of biometric data.

The legal debate over use of biometric data entered a new forum recently with a lawsuit against Amazon for alleged violations of the New York City privacy statute. Insurers are watching this case, and ...

Congressional members requested guardrails, transparency and oversight in a letter to the secretary of Homeland Security and ...

A new lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court is shining a spotlight on the legal risks tied to AI-powered meeting assistants ...

Russian authorities have assigned “state system” status to the country’s uniform biometric database (UBS). The system aims to confirm identity in online banking and primarily consisted of bank clients ...