As part of its campaign to relaunch its proposed legislation for a national identity card program using biometric technology, the U.K. government also released late Wednesday its report on the U.K.

This year might be a boon for biometric privacy legislation. The topic is heating up and lies at the intersection of four trends: increasing artificial intelligence (AI)-based threats, growing ...

Just last month, news broke that biometric data for more than a million people was exposed from a platform called Biostar 2, a tool to control access to buildings and secure areas. This wasn’t the ...

In a new report called “Regulating Biometrics: Global Approaches and Urgent Questions,” the AI Now Institute says regulation advocates are beginning to believe a biometric surveillance state is not ...

NADRA has launched a facial recognition–based biometric verification facility, ending problems faced by elderly citizens and ...

Anonymity provides insurgents or terrorists with protection and operational advantage. Stripping away this anonymity puts them at a disadvantage, whether in Iraq, , or the United States. Biometric ...

Biometric security systems have one particularly critical vulnerability: How do you replace your finger if a hacker figures out how to duplicate it? An IBM Corp. research team working on that problem ...