An employee scans the eyes of a woman for biometric data needed to apply for a passport, at the passport office in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2021. Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent ...

CHARLOTTE — When you think of identity theft, you probably think about personal information, such as Social Security Numbers, said Action 9 investigator Jason Stoogenke. You must now consider ...

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Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode.

The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen at the ICE Cyber Crimes Center expanded facilities in Fairfax, Va., on July 22, 2015. (Photo by Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images) Customs and ...

With enterprises constantly on the lookout for better security, biometrics is increasingly seen as a better alternative for authenticating digital identities than outdated authentication methods such ...

The RFI and accompanying documents outline a sweeping modernization effort aimed at consolidating and scaling biometric matching across the department.

One useful but often overlooked security feature is the Aadhaar biometric lock, offered by UIDAI to help prevent misuse of ...

ADHRB warns that Gulf states; data laws, framed as privacy reforms, are enabling widespread biometric surveillance through vague national security exemptions and weak enforcement that threaten ...

According to Winston Churchill, there is no worse mistake in leadership than to hold out false hopes. One area where false hopes have long abounded is information security, and it’s happening again.