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Privacy campaigners pile pressure on the police
TECHNOLOGY
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ISSN 0969-4765 June 2015
law enforcement
Contents
Privacy campaigners pile pressure on the police
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aw enforcement agencies globally are coming under pressure from privacy groups over their use of biometric technology as more polices forces look to the technology. In the US, civil rights groups have called for law enforcement agencies to avoid using facial recognition on images collected by body worn cameras. International Business Times has reported that a coalition of 34 civil rights and privacy groups, including the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union, has unveiled a list of recommendations regarding the use of police body cameras in the US after a number of incidents in which body cameras failed to capture what happened before a fatal shooting. The recommendations ask police to avoid using facial recognition and other biometric technology in examining the footage, to follow specific regulations on how long data is retained, make the footage available to the press and to prevent officers from viewing the footage
before filing incident reports. In Scotland, police have confirmed that they are using facial recognition technology. Herald Scotland reports that police officers have confirmed they have used it on more than 400 occasions. Scots Lib Dem justice spokeswoman Alison McInnes, who uncovered the figures, said it raised concerns about the protection of civil liberties. She told Herald Scotland: “Without adequate safeguards, there is nothing to stop the police using from using this technology for mass surveillance.” In Australia, law enforcement agencies have backed a plan to build a national facial recognition database that will match faces to images on passports, visas and driver’s licences to combat cross-border criminal networks, reports Australia’s IT News. In India, Hyderabad police is set to acquire facial recognition software to identify terror suspects, property offenders and other criminals from images collected from CCTV cameras.
banking
Users of all ages embrace banking biometrics
U
sers of all ages are embracing banking biometrics, a study has found. This comes as the banking sector shows an ever increasing interest in biometric technology. More than 400,000 USAA customers, five of whom are over 90 years old, have opted in to use face, voice or touch biometrics to authenticate themselves to the company’s mobile banking application, reports American Banker. USAA has carried out demographic analysis of its users’ biometric adoption. Rick Swenson, USAA’s fraud operational excellence and strategic initiatives executive, told American Banker he thought the demographic adopting biometrics would skew toward millennials, but the makeup
TODAY
biometric
of users has turned out to be different. The median age of users is 35, Swenson said during a biometric roundtable hosted by the Center for the Study of Financial Innovation in London. And 15% of those in the older half are over 65. Other banking biometrics news in the past month includes: UÊÊ iÃiÊ iÌÀ>ÊL>ÊvvV>Ê >ÃÊÃ>`ÊÌ iÊ technology must be mature and regulations changed before the public will be allowed to open accounts using facial recognition technology, reports Caixin Online. UÊÊ >ÊÀiÃi>ÀV iÀÃÊ >ÛiÊ`iÛi«i`Ê>Ê/ Ê with facial recognition technology. The developers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan Continued on page 2...
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ISSN 0969-4765/15 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This journal and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by Elsevier Ltd, and the following terms and conditions apply to their use: Photocopying Single photocopies of single articles may be made for personal use as allowed by national copyright laws. Permission of the publisher and payment of a fee is required for all other photocopying, including multiple or systematic copying, copying for advertising or promotional purposes, resale, and all forms of document delivery. Special rates are available for educational institutions that wish to make photocopies for non-profit educational classroom use.
www.biometrics-today.com
ISSN 0969-4765 June 2015
law enforcement
Contents
Privacy campaigners pile pressure on the police
L
aw enforcement agencies globally are coming under pressure from privacy groups over their use of biometric technology as more polices forces look to the technology. In the US, civil rights groups have called for law enforcement agencies to avoid using facial recognition on images collected by body worn cameras. International Business Times has reported that a coalition of 34 civil rights and privacy groups, including the NAACP and the American Civil Liberties Union, has unveiled a list of recommendations regarding the use of police body cameras in the US after a number of incidents in which body cameras failed to capture what happened before a fatal shooting. The recommendations ask police to avoid using facial recognition and other biometric technology in examining the footage, to follow specific regulations on how long data is retained, make the footage available to the press and to prevent officers from viewing the footage
before filing incident reports. In Scotland, police have confirmed that they are using facial recognition technology. Herald Scotland reports that police officers have confirmed they have used it on more than 400 occasions. Scots Lib Dem justice spokeswoman Alison McInnes, who uncovered the figures, said it raised concerns about the protection of civil liberties. She told Herald Scotland: “Without adequate safeguards, there is nothing to stop the police using from using this technology for mass surveillance.” In Australia, law enforcement agencies have backed a plan to build a national facial recognition database that will match faces to images on passports, visas and driver’s licences to combat cross-border criminal networks, reports Australia’s IT News. In India, Hyderabad police is set to acquire facial recognition software to identify terror suspects, property offenders and other criminals from images collected from CCTV cameras.
banking
Users of all ages embrace banking biometrics
U
sers of all ages are embracing banking biometrics, a study has found. This comes as the banking sector shows an ever increasing interest in biometric technology. More than 400,000 USAA customers, five of whom are over 90 years old, have opted in to use face, voice or touch biometrics to authenticate themselves to the company’s mobile banking application, reports American Banker. USAA has carried out demographic analysis of its users’ biometric adoption. Rick Swenson, USAA’s fraud operational excellence and strategic initiatives executive, told American Banker he thought the demographic adopting biometrics would skew toward millennials, but the makeup
TODAY
biometric
of users has turned out to be different. The median age of users is 35, Swenson said during a biometric roundtable hosted by the Center for the Study of Financial Innovation in London. And 15% of those in the older half are over 65. Other banking biometrics news in the past month includes: UÊÊ iÃiÊ iÌÀ>ÊL>ÊvvV>Ê >ÃÊÃ>`ÊÌ iÊ technology must be mature and regulations changed before the public will be allowed to open accounts using facial recognition technology, reports Caixin Online. UÊÊ >ÊÀiÃi>ÀV iÀÃÊ >ÛiÊ`iÛi«i`Ê>Ê/ Ê with facial recognition technology. The developers include Tsinghua University and Tzekwan Continued on page 2...
News Privacy campaigners pile pressure on the police
1
Users of all ages embrace banking biometrics 1 SayPay Technologies and VoiceVault partner to deliver online and mobile payment
2
Biometric tech secures bitcoin wallet
2
Nok Nok Labs integrates S3 with Android M
3
NTT Docomo implements fingerprint and iris biometrics
2
Smart cane enables blind people to identify people using facial recognition
3
Researchers use brain waves to identify individuals
3
Microsoft wearable with behavioural biometrics?
3
Imprivata snaps up HT Systems to target patient identification
11
Lisbon airport trials EC Smart Borders Program 11 UNHCR to deploy Accenture biometrics to assist refugees
11
IBIA urges US transport authorities to enhance biographic ID with biometrics
11
Frost & Sullivan finds global market for iris recognition at nascent phase
12
Facial recognition market forecast for 17.4% CAGR
12
Global biometrics market to increase from $2bn in 2015 to $14.9bn by 2024
12
Features Assuring identity against the growing terrorist travel threat By Janice Kephart, BORDERPOL
5
Biometric technology: not a password replacement, but a complement Larry Hamid, Imation Mobile Security, advocates combining biometrics and passwords to bolster security.
7
Regulars Events Calendar
3
News in Brief
4
Product News
4
Company News
4
Comment
12
ISSN 0969-4765/15 © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This journal and the individual contributions contained in it are protected under copyright by Elsevier Ltd, and the following terms and conditions apply to their use: Photocopying Single photocopies of single articles may be made for personal use as allowed by national copyright laws. Permission of the publisher and payment of a fee is required for all other photocopying, including multiple or systematic copying, copying for advertising or promotional purposes, resale, and all forms of document delivery. Special rates are available for educational institutions that wish to make photocopies for non-profit educational classroom use.