The New Zealand Post (NZPost), a state-owned operation that manages the country’s postal service among some other services for citizens, has begun offering passport and digital photo services with software from biometrics developer Daon that includes facial recognition, fingerprint scans and voice samples to be attached to the data, according to a Stuff.co.nz article. The […]

The Czech Republic has extended the contract of Trüb for secure polycarbonate data pages with embedded chip for electronic passports. The cooperation with the Czech Republic began in 2006 with the supply of polycarbonate data pages with embedded chips implementing the basic access control standard. In April 2009, the Czech Republic started issuing a new […]

Wavestore, a developer of video recording solutions, has announced a partnership agreement with biometrics developer Airborne Biometrics Group (ABG) that will see its facial recognition technology incorporated into Wavestore’s product offerings. ABG’s FaceFirst software will be utilized with Wavestore’s surveillance technology to enable a solution that can alert security or police personnel when a registered […]

There was a time when enrolling in an ID system involved keying in some data, gluing a photo to a card and laminating it all together. So much for your father’s ID badge. Today, most enrollment systems are digital and new technologies are making the process more mobile, efficient and able to incorporate a multiple […]

Stewart Heffernan, CEO at OmniPerception, has come out against privacy advocates and a study from Carnegie Mellon University that says facial recognition technology is a threat to the privacy of people in their everyday activities, according to an Info Security article. Chiefly among his reasons for rejecting the study is that identifying people by their […]

A Google Group called “London Riots Facial Recognition” has been formed online with a goal of leveraging facial recognition and large public groups to find a way to positively identify those involved in the looting and rioting in London, according to a Tech Crunch article. While the group’s moderator and respective members have attempted to […]

Researchers from Microsoft Research Asia are presenting new methods of capturing high-fidelity 3D facial expressions at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver. The research team, made up of Haoda Huang, Xin Tong and Hsiang-Tao Wu from Microsoft Research Asia, along with Jinziang Chai from Texas A&M University, used a two-step process to create more realistic 3D images. […]

London’s Heathrow International Airport has announced plans to bring face recognition systems as additional layer of security for those flying internationally, according to a Singularity Hub article. Specifically, the systems are being put into place to ensure the person receiving a boarding pass is the same person who uses the boarding pass as Heathrow’s Terminals […]

GTSI Corp, an information technology systems integrator, has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Department of Defense that will see the company provide Army personnel with mobile biometric solutions enabling them to better identify persons of interest in the field. The contract, called the Biometric Automated Toolset – Army contract, […]

Social networking site Facebook could be in legal trouble with Germany due to Facebook’s usage of facial recognition technology on uploaded pictures being in violation of the country’s privacy and data protection laws, according to a Guardian article. Johannes Caspar, an official Germany’s data protection sector, has written Facebook demanding the removal of the program […]