Facial recognition does have some clear benefits, such as helping law enforcement identify suspects quickly in crowded spaces ...

Meta is expanding its use of facial recognition in Europe, the UK and South Korea to crack down on accounts that impersonate ...

The Aurora Police Department wants to add facial recognition software to its crime-fighting toolkit. The technology, already used in other Colorado cities, has long been controversial. Civil rights ...

Last October it introduced facial scans to spot ads scamming users with fake celebrity endorsements, now the same tech will look out for impostor accounts. It’s switching on for Facebook in the EU and ...

This week’s episode of the Biometric Update Podcast features Professor Fraser Sampson, former UK Biometrics and Surveillance ...

Facial recognition searches took up to a day before the public security agency switched to the vector database, according to ...

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify, ...

Sainsbury’s will soon introduce facial recognition across its supermarkets, in a move privacy campaigners told Metro is ‘chilling’. The divisive technology will be trialled for eight weeks at the ...

Spokeo reports on smart home facial recognition technology, enhancing convenience but raising privacy concerns; adoption hinges on household consent and risk assessment.

Sainsbury’s has said it plans to introduce facial recognition across its UK shops as it launches the controversial technology in its first stores. The UK’s second largest supermarket chain has ...

Sainsbury’s is to use controversial face recognition technology in its stores for the first time. However, the use of facial recognition has been heavily criticised by privacy groups. Campaign group ...