Elimination databases are used to exclude police officers’ DNA or fingerprints from crime scene samples, helping to prevent contamination from being mistaken for a suspect’s profile. However, the ...

Highly sensitive biometric data belonging to millions of Britons is in line to be stored on Amazon’s systems, amid questions over why details of the contract have been shrouded in secrecy. The Home ...

Police Scotland has been warned it is not recording DNA ethnicity data correctly amid a row around allegations of ...

The FBI’s vast biometric database is even more vast than most people realized. According to a new government report, the FBI can currently run face recognition on 411.9 million photos. They include ...