Six years into the "new normal" of terror alerts, identification checks, electronic surveillance, and increasing levels of secrecy-based security, the prospect of a ...

Government also calls for national register of under-16s... The government says the ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information for the public sector to ...

The British government says its ID card database will become a national population register of basic personal information that its agencies can use to verify identity. It has called for the ...

ID.me, a facial recognition company that has been contracted by the IRS to verify taxpayers’ identity, uses a powerful facial recognition technique to match faces against a larger database, despite ...

In 2015, New York City launched a municipal identification program with the goal of giving some of the city’s most vulnerable residents access to services that require an ID. Mayor Bill de Blasio gave ...