It’s surprising how quickly public opinion can change. Winding the clocks back 12 months, many of us would have looked at a masked individual in public with suspicion. One consequence of this is that ...

The US Department of Homeland Security tested facial-recognition technology that it said can accurately identify masked airline passengers 96% of the time. Pre-pandemic facial-recognition algorithms ...

Researchers at cyber-defense contractor PeopleTec have found that facial-recognition algorithms' focus on specific areas of the face opens the door to subtler surveillance avoidance strategies.… In a ...

A recent development in the realm of facial recognition technology addresses the challenges posed by face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, promising to recognize the face despite the mask, as ...

It’s unclear if this mask was produced and sold commercially, or was simply a thought experiment. A photograph of a person wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt and a clear, seemingly pleated mask shared ...

Facial recognition technology has come a long way in recent years, spurred in equal parts by convenience and the priorities of government snoops. Now, if you plan to go a long way via air travel, you ...

Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In today’s edition…Police are running wild with flawed facial recognition systems and no one ...