Security News > 2023 > December > Interpol makes first border arrest using Biometric Hub to ID suspect

He probably would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids Interpol's Biometric Hub - a recently activated tool that uses French identity and biometrics vendor Idemia's technology to match people's biometric data against the multinational policing org's global fingerprint and facial recognition databases.

Interpol introduced the Biometric Hub - aka BioHub - in October, and it is now available to law enforcement in all 196 member countries.

Neither Interpol nor Idemia immediately responded to The Register's questions about how the technology and remote access works.

Then in 2016, Interpol inked another contract with Idemia to use the French firm's facial recognition capabilities for the Interpol Face Recognition System.

A second phase, which will take two years to become fully operational, will extend the biometric checks to border control points.

Interpol expects the combined fingerprints and facial recognition system will speed future biometric searches.

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