A Black man is suing a Louisiana sheriff’s office for allegedly using facial identification software as the basis for a wrongful arrest that kept him in jail for days on theft charges, despite having ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is piloting facial recognition technologies that can see through face masks with a "promising" level of accuracy, meaning that travelers could end up ...

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 ...

The future of facial recognition technology may depend on one very specific part of the face: the area around the eyes. Before the global pandemic, facial recognition systems typically worked by ...

Depending on where you sit on the techno-optimist scale, the advent of facial recognition is either a marvelous tool or the downfall of privacy as we know it. Either way, the ability of computers to ...

Apple’s building face recognition into its upcoming iOS5 update, and also enhanced personal assistant tech. If it gets the tech right, it could overtake Android’s current lead in the smartphone race.

Almost 200 face recognition algorithms—a majority in the industry—had worse performance on nonwhite faces, according to a landmark study. What they tested: The US National Institute of Standards and ...