Biometric authentication—the ability to unlock your devices by using just your face or fingerprint—is one of the few smartphone features that, even today, leave me feeling like we’re living in the ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

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 ...

United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the ...

WASHINGTON (KPTV) - U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley of Oregon introduced legislation Friday that would ban federal immigration agencies from using facial recognition and other biometric ...

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 ...

A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from using facial ...

There is virtually nothing in the Metropolitan Police policy to constrain where it deploys live facial recognition (LFR), the High Court has heard during a judicial review into whether the force is ...

A Plymouth company that makes iris-scanning software has joined the ranks of technology firms helping federal immigration authorities assemble a vast surveillance apparatus to identify targets for ...

AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- Illinois state lawmakers and privacy advocates are raising concerns over technology used by federal agents for immigration enforcement that they say violates the privacy and ...

The grocery store chain Wegmans, among other retailers, is using face recognition on its customers — and scanning their faces for resemblance not only to accused shoplifters but also to people whose ...