How AI-Powered Police Forces Watch Your Every Move
(The Marshall Project, Jun 07, 2025)
From facial recognition to predictive analytics to the rise of increasingly convincing deepfakes and other synthetic video, new technologies are emerging faster than agencies, lawmakers, or watchdog groups can keep up.
ICO Unveils Comprehensive Strategy to Regulate AI and Biometrics
(The Channel Co., Jun 09, 2025)
Among the regulator's key actions are the development of a statutory code of practice for AI use, audits and legal guidance on police deployment of facial recognition technology, and setting "clear expectations" for the use of personal data in training generative AI models.
Harmonize Your Biometrics Platforms, UN Tells Nigeria
(The Herald Nigeria, Jun 07, 2025)
“I would raise one concern and that is that in Nigeria we have a multiplicity of platforms that are doing a biometrics on everything; that is not efficient. “It is not cost-effective and there should be a better way for us, to say that, you have the banks taking everybody’s biometrics, immigration is doing it. I mean everybody is doing.
UAE Shoppers Want 1-Click, Biometric Checkouts for Safer Online Payments: Visa
(Arabian Business, Jun 06, 2025)
Consumers across the UAE are calling for more secure and seamless online shopping experiences, according to Visa’s latest Checkout Friction Report. Based on a survey of more than 2,000 online shoppers across the GCC, the report shows that security concerns and complex payment steps are the top barriers to smooth transactions.
JFK Rolls Out Biometric Screening for U.S. Citizens In Partnership with American Airlines and CBP
(Identity Week, Jun 09, 2025)
CBP official Diane J. Sabatino has highlighted the agency’s push towards mobile and biometric solutions that balance enhanced security with smoother passenger flows, sensing early risk assessments and supporting CBP’s overarching border management.
