Biometrics
(asked on 19th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how much the Home Office has spent on facial biometric recognition technology to date, and which companies have been paid to build facial biometric recognition systems.
This question was answered on 1st November 2017
The facial biometric technology built for the Home Office was developed as part of the original builds for the Immigration Asylum Biometric System and ePassport Gates and therefore the costs cannot be extracted individually.
The companies that have been paid are as follows:
IBM/Oberthan (previously known as Safran / Morpho)
Vision Box (Cognitec)
CGI (Cognitec)