ROCHESTER, N.Y. — On Monday, Wegmans acknowledged using facial recognition technology in a “small fraction” of its stores, the company said in a statement. The technology helps identify shoppers ...

Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, ...

Police use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology reconfigures suspicion in subtle yet important ways, undermining so-called human-in-the-loop safeguards. Despite the long-standing controversies ...

A group of students and volunteers has compiled a database of surveillance technologies being used by by law enforcement agencies in counties and municipalities across the United States. The research ...

Two technologies — one for public safety, one for controlled entry — show why trust in facial recognition must be earned, not assumed. Facial recognition is used for public surveillance and business ...

Roblox will launch facial age checks as a requirement for all users who want to access communication features beginning next month. The gaming platform has also implemented age-based chats to limit ...

From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose access—and your privacy—if the algorithms get it wrong. I've been covering the tech industry, ...

Face recognition is a dragnet surveillance technology and its expansion within law enforcement over the last 20 years has been marred by systematic invasions of privacy, inaccuracies, unreliable ...

If you thought your credit score was invasive, just wait until companies are judging you based on your mug alone. It’s hard to imagine why anyone would ask such a question, but here we are anyway. The ...

The Department of Homeland Security has issued new guidance requiring foreign nationals – including green card holders and other non-U.S. citizens living legally in the country, to be photographed ...