We often hear about government misuse of face recognition technology (FRT) and how it can derail a person’s life through wrongful arrests and other harms. Despite mounting evidence, government ...

Facial recognition has quietly become part of our everyday routine. Whenever we unlock our phones with a glance or quickly ...

Essex Police says it has confidence in its update, but campaigners still oppose the technology.

COURBEVOIE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IDEMIA’s facial recognition 1:N algorithm achieved best for accuracy in the latest Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) from the National Institute of Standards and ...

(NNPA NEWSWIRE) – Recent research conducted by Scientific American Online supported fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. The research found that law ...

The World Economic Forum’s "Global Risks Report 2024" notes that foreign and domestic actors leveraging misinformation—often generated by AI—is among the most adverse threats the world will face in ...

Last week it was reported that a Black British driver is taking Uber to court alleging indirect race discrimination ...

Facial-recognition software is leading to wrongful arrests, but the secrecy around the use of the technology makes it hard to know just how often it happens. So far, there are at least five known ...

Researchers are warning that facial recognition technologies are "more threatening than previously thought" and pose "serious challenges to privacy" after a study found that artificial intelligence ...

In June 2021, Dave Zvenyach, director of a group tasked with improving digital access to US government services, sent a Slack message to his team. He’d decided that Login.gov, which provides a secure ...

Consider a new digital privacy fear unlocked. As Wired reports, a facial recognition search site called PimEyes, which claims to create biometric human “faceprints,” has been using stolen photos of ...