A new AI-driven beauty evaluation system rates how attractive faces appear, while training faster than typical deep learning models, potentially making large-scale automated beauty-scoring more ...

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. The agency is ...

Dave Lee is Bloomberg Opinion's US technology columnist. He was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times and BBC News. Meta Platforms Inc. thinks we’re too distracted for a proper debate on ...

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart ...

Meta has backed away from highly controversial facial recognition tech in its products and services before, but seemingly not so far that it isn’t willing to have another crack at it. A new report ...

Five years after shutting down facial recognition on Facebook over privacy concerns, Meta is preparing to bring the technology back – this time through its smart glasses. According to reports, the ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

A Department Of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection sign is displayed at the CBP headquarters on May 18, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images) U.S. Customs and ...

Editor’s note: The above video is from a related story that KXAN reported in April 2025. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department has released its latest report of instances in which it used ...

Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers and activists.

The Milwaukee Police Department's proposal to use facial recognition technology to solve crimes has raised concerns about civil liberties and privacy among the public. The Milwaukee Police ...

Civil liberty advocates and some lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the privacy risks of federal agents using surveillance toolkits during immigration enforcement operations. Using facial recognition ...