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, […]

Biometric identification technology provider Neurotechnology has received the FBI’s WSQ Certification. This certification states that Neurotechnology’s MegaMatcher and VeriFinger SDK fingerprint compression algorithms meet accuracy requirements spelled out in the Wavelet Scalar Quantization (WSQ) Gray-Scale Fingerprint Image Compression Specification, Version 3.1. The 3.1 version is the most recent standard for fingerprint image exchange in the […]

Following an offer from the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) to use its database of driver license photographs and face recognition technology to help in tracking down those suspected in being involved in the Vancouver riots following their loss in the NHL Stanley Cup finals this year, British Columbia’s privacy commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, has […]

The UK’s National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) has brought mobile fingerprinting devices to the police agencies in the UK to enable quicker identification of fingerprints without having to bring the person of interest back to the police station for identification authentication, according to a Planet Biometrics article. Though capable of identifying a person of interest […]

L-1 Identity Solutions has announced it has been awarded a contract from the Tennessee Applicant Processing Services program naming them the exclusive provider of digital fingerprint services for the state. The contract, which is valued at $40 million, is purported to span three years with two additional and optional one year renewals. Specifically, the systems […]

The state of Massachusetts has implemented a face recognition system that it uses as a tool to combat identity fraud in the state by looking through its database of driver’s license pictures on the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. But the system has left some people incorrectly accused of wrong-doing, according to a Boston.com article. […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the summer 2011 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

The U.S. military’s biometrics program scored a big win in the war on terror this year when the system was used to recapture Afghan prisoners who broke out of the Saraposa jail in Kandahar. Wired reports that the military has been a proponent of biometrics over the last seven years, pouring billions of dollars into […]

NEC Corp. has announced it has deployed a new automated fingerprint identification system (AFIS) to the Anhui Province Public Safety Authority that will focus on assisting law enforcement with screening criminals and suspects based on fingerprints left at crime scenes. The new system includes more than 1800 AFIS terminals with an additional 500 planned for […]

As the outrage over the rioting in Vancouver after game seven of the Stanley Cup continues, facial recognition software may help catch the culprits. The New Brunswick Business Journal reports that the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) has offered the Vancouver police department the use of its database and facial recognition software to help […]