The decision to create a national facial recognition database system in Australia is a giant step by the Labor and Liberal parties down an Orwellian path of Big Brother surveillance and ultimately ...

A federal watchdog reported Wednesday that the FBI did not properly conduct an accuracy test for its new facial recognition technology. This 68-page report details the Government Accountability Office ...

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 ...

Dr. Joseph Atick is a co-founder of Visionics Corporation, and currently serves as President and CEO. He and his colleagues have developed "FaceIt" face recognition, a biometric technology that can ...

US Customs and Border Protection will expand its biometric tracking, photographing nearly all non-US citizens entering or departing the country. This new rule, effective soon, aims to enhance national ...

There are many ways to tell a person apart: fingerprints, iris scans, and Aadhar cards. Yet there is nothing like a face. During the Covid-19 lockdowns, India’s Defense Research and Development ...

For the past 15 years, police forces searching for criminals in Europe have been able to share fingerprints, DNA data, and details of vehicle owners with each other. If officials in France suspect ...

Controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI, which is reportedly used by thousands of government and law enforcement agencies around the world, has been fined more than $9.4 million by the U ...

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The controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI reportedly told investors that it aims to collect 100 billion photos—supposedly enough to ensure that almost every human will be in its ...

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 ...