Key points The Home Office set out plans on 4 November 2026 for a new law and an independent watchdog covering police facial recognition. In extreme cases of non-compliance, the watchdog ...
Key points Bank SinoPac reported 427 unauthorized transfers across 419 customer accounts on November 3, 2026. The transfers totalled more than NT$40 million, about NT$100,000 each, and ...
Key points India's civil aviation ministry announced Digi Yatra trials for international passengers on 1 November 2026. Seven airports take part: Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Cochin, ...
Biometrics news moves fast. Here are the 10 stories from October 23 to 29 that matter most. They cover airports, age checks, national ID and border control. 1. Brazil Makes Face Checks ...
Ghana's National Identification Authority (NIA) began enforcing mandatory Ghana Card biometric verification on 2 November 2026. Banks, telecoms and other institutions can no longer treat a ...
South Africa's Department of Home Affairs plans to launch a biometric asylum registration platform by 10 November 2026, Minister Leon Schreiber said. Applicants will have to submit biometric ...
Switzerland begins issuing its first biometric ID card on Monday, November 2. The card holds a facial image and two fingerprints on a chip. The card is optional. Swiss citizens can still ...
Sainsbury's has switched its facial recognition cameras back on at the London store where they led to an innocent shopper being thrown out. The move has reopened a fierce debate about face scans ...
Apple has added a new way to prove you're an adult on an iPhone: take a selfie. The option arrived with iOS 27.2. Apple released the update on October 26. It sits next to the existing choices ...
Brazilians will soon need a face scan to open a mobile line. In time they'll need one to keep the line they already have. Brazil's telecom regulator Anatel has made facial biometric checks ...
