ICE’s Facial Recognition App Raises Alarms Over Expansion of Domestic Surveillance
(Biometric Update , Jul 17, 2025)
The app enables ICE agents to perform facial recognition searches against a reportedly sprawling dataset of 200 million images and to conduct fingerprint scans directly from their government-issued mobile devices. This capability effectively transforms ICE officers into roving biometric scanners, capable of identifying individuals in real time anywhere within the United States.
[Video] Latest TSA Changes: No More Removing Shoes at Airport Security Checkpoints
(ABC News, Jul 17, 2025)
Facial Recognition: New technology will allow passengers to go through security without speaking to TSA agents
Police to Use Facial Recognition Cameras at Notting Hill Carnival in New Crackdown on Violence
(Daily Mail, Jul 17, 2025)
Police will use mobile live facial recognition, or LFR, cameras around the perimeter of the three-mile parade route as part of a beefed-up security operation involving 7,000 officers every day over the Bank Holiday weekend from August 23-25.
Parents Must Update Aadhaar Biometrics for Children Aged 7
(Identity Week, Jul 17, 2025)
The exercise is mandatory to “maintain the accuracy and reliability of biometric data of children” and services enabled through Aadhaar may be cut off if the rules are not followed.
Motion is Your Signature: How Dynamic Cues Reveal Identity
(Neuroscience News, Jul 17, 2025)
New research is shedding light on how dynamic motion — from subtle facial gestures to full-body movements and voice patterns — creates what some scientists are calling a “dynamic fingerprint”: a unique, motion-based identity signature we use to recognize those we know.
