The Malaysian Government is considering utilizing facial recognition in conjunction with an automated plate number recognition system in an effort to enhance crime prevention in the country, according to an article from The Malay Mail. The country’s police force would be acting as the lead government group in the introduction of the technology though other […]

The Pinal County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) in Arizona has announced it has received four iris scanners for enrolling and identifying inmates at the Pinal County Jail as well as biometrically tracking and monitoring registered sex offenders living in the county, according to a San Tan Valley Today article. The scanners, which come from biometric technology […]

Cross Match Technologies has announced it has reached an agreement with the Argentine Government to support the deployment of various biometric systems to help enhance new and existent government services. Among the systems Cross Match will be assisting the government’s National Public Administration include fingerprint, palm print and multi-modal capture devices, document readers and supporting […]

When you’re chasing down international criminals, the last thing you need is a passport inspection slowing you down at the border. That’s the idea behind the new travel documents issued to officers of the International Criminal Police Organization, or INTERPOL. With the new secure IDs, they can assist in transnational investigations or urgent deployments without […]

Entrust has announced it will help the Danish National Police (Rigspolitiet) migrate Denmark’s e-passport infrastructure to the Extended Access Control (EAC) standard – the EU’s newest standard for biometrics and e-passport security. Entrust will work with its partner Nets, a Danish technology vendor specializing in payments, to provide 670,000 EAC e-passports to Danish citizens on […]

Advanced Optical Systems (AOS), an Alabama-based developer of imaging and identity technology, is developing a new fingerprint-based authentication device that they hope will be able to authenticate an individual’s identity from up to two meters away, according to a Technology Review article. The device, called AIRprint, is able to do so by analyzing reflections of […]

Fulcrum Biometrics has announced the release of a new fingerprint recognition accessory and accompanying application designed for use with the iPod Touch that utilizes TouchChip silicon fingerprint sensors from fellow biometrics developer AuthenTec. The new solution, called FbF mobileOne, snaps onto iPod Touches from the 2nd, 3rd or 4th generations and enables a user to […]

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks there were many claims about facial recognition biometrics. Some vendors claimed that if the technology had been deployed at airports, the hijackers could have been caught and the tragedy averted. This was not one of the higher points for the technology as a number of factors show that statement to […]

IrisGuard, a Jordan-based developer of iris recognition systems, has landed a contract for supplying the Jordanian government technology for capturing iris data of each visitor to the country, according to a Bloomberg article. Such projects are not new to IrisGuard as in 2002 they implemented a similar system in the United Arab Emirates to track […]

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a recommendation for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to better their use of biometric technology. As the DOD is budgeted to spend $3.5 billion on the technology between 2007 and 2015, the GAO was tasked with determining how much the DOD has taken standards and interoperability into […]