Security Architectures in the EU

Tag: Facial Images

  • Facial recognition and police records: European biometric systems to be expanded

    Facial recognition and police records: European biometric systems to be expanded

    A new Prüm system will make it possible to query facial images across Europe in the future, and a central biometric EU repository will also be connected to it For 14 years, the member states of the European Union have…

  • Prüm Framework: EU Presidency wants a European Weapons Register

    Prüm Framework: EU Presidency wants a European Weapons Register

    In a decentralised system, the police forces of the EU member states network DNA files, fingerprints, vehicle data and soon also facial images. The automated retrieval of data in criminal investigations is now to be extended to firearms. However, a…

  • Schengen Information System: Fingerprint matching now obligatory throughout the EU

    Schengen Information System: Fingerprint matching now obligatory throughout the EU

    For two years now, the largest European police database has had a technique for cross-checking dactyloscopic data. The proportion of false hits is said to be in the per mille range. A comparable German system contains data records on 5.3…

  • Project Interoperability: EU to pay 300 million EUR for face and fingerprint recognition

    Project Interoperability: EU to pay 300 million EUR for face and fingerprint recognition

    The companies IDEMIA and Sopra Steria are setting up a biometric recognition system for the EU. For this purpose, fingerprints and facial images from five databases will be stored in a single file. Completion is planned in two years, but…

  • German authorities improve face recognition

    German authorities improve face recognition

    The Federal Criminal Police Office can search a database with almost 6 million facial images, the system is now being equipped with artificial intelligence Last week, the German Federal Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer surprisingly moved away from plans…

  • EU facial recognition

    EU facial recognition

    Police and secret services can currently search facial images only in individual EU Member States. The EU wants to change that The European Union wants to make it much easier for police to cross-check facial images. In the future, it…