Major US Airlines Sell Your Travel Data to Homeland Security, Privacy Experts Sound Alarm
(Travel Noire, Jul 14, 2025)
This data sharing agreement occurred alongside other privacy concerns in travel. These include the Real ID mandate, increased facial recognition at airports, and the collection of biometric data. Non-U.S. citizens face additional privacy challenges, as their biometric data may be stored for up to 75 years in the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) system.
Russian Airports to Begin Rollout of AI-Powered Security Systems
(The Moscow Times, Jul 14, 2025)
These biometric investigative tools will be used alongside facial recognition to identify suspects in serious offences and to locate missing people.
Gardaí to Use Gait Analysis and Voice Recognition to Identify Suspects
(Irish Times, Jul 14, 2025)
These biometric investigative tools will be used alongside facial recognition to identify suspects in serious offences and to locate missing people.
Mizoram Decides to Collect Biometrics, Biographic Data of Myanmar Refugees
(The Economic Times, Jul 14, 2025)
A Mizoram Home Department official, who did not want to be named, told ET, “Towards the end of July, the work of collecting biometric and demographic data of around 35,000 Myanmar refugees would start. The biometric exercise would be conducted using the Foreigner Identification Portal and would be carried out in all 11 districts of the state."
Chandigarh Administration Mulls Biometric Attendance at Private Colleges
(The Tribune, Jul 13, 2025)
After implementing the Department of Personnel orders for mandatory Aadhaar Enable Biometric Attendance System at local government colleges, the Department of High Education (DHE) is planning to ask the private colleges to also follow suit.
