In the summer of 2022, with a spike in violent crime hitting New Orleans, the city council voted to allow police to use facial-recognition software to track down suspects — a technology that the mayor ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly turned facial recognition into a frontline tool, letting agents move from a snapshot to a knock on the door in minutes instead of days. What began as ...

The technology authenticates people with high accuracy indoors or outdoors, enabling hand-free IDV and strong security in ...

In May 2019, San Francisco became the first US city to ban the use of facial recognition, but this is an isolated example of resistance to this controversial technology. In the UK, it's been used on ...

Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform questioned the FBI over its use of facial recognition technology. The FBI has expanded its access to photo databases and facial ...

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) submitted a new measure that allows it to photograph any non-US citizen who enters or exits the country for facial recognition purposes. According to a ...

This story was made possible with support from the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. “And then the nightmare began,” says Guillermo Ibarrola, recalling his arrest at the crowded train ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. One evening in March 2017, Hoan Ton-That, an Australian coder building a powerful ...

TSA is rolling out facial recognition technology at airport security checkpoints nationwide. The technology aims to streamline identity verification and improve ...

The National Database and Registration Authority has launched a facial recognition-based biometric verification system to help citizens who face difficulties with fingerprint verification, ...