Congress to Consider Regulating Drone Surveillance, Facial Recognition
Proposed legislation would require law enforcement agencies to have a warrant or “extreme exigent circumstances” to use drone surveillance.
Proposed legislation would require law enforcement agencies to have a warrant or “extreme exigent circumstances” to use drone surveillance.
Scientists say the new technology is more secure than other biometric methods such as fingerprints and facial recognition.
Market intelligence firm Tractica forecasts fingerprint recognition, voice recognition, iris recognition and facial recognition will be the leading modalities as biometrics use cases continue to expand.
The city will use license plate readers and recognition software to track who enters and leaves the city.
Debate over the biometrics program has lasted years and included multiple extensions of a pilot program which has taken in a sizable portion, though still a minority, of the country’s citizens.
Officials say the technology would be able to identify suspects following two attacks by Islamist militants in the past month.
Increasing investments in security systems, plus the abilities of the technology, are driving the growth in the market.
The biometrics technology compares an image of travelers taken during the normal inspection process to the image stored on their ePassport.
The airport now has APC kiosks in place capable of matching travelers’ faces to their images in their passports.
The bank is also testing biometric authentication technology that scans the veins of smartphone users’ eyes to verify their identity.