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 ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are using a new facial recognition smartphone app called Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of both US citizens and immigrants. They point a phone ...

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...

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 ...

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests. By Adam Satariano Paul ...

The wrongful arrest of a Florida man, for crimes he did not commit last year, was the result of an Orlando Police officer’s use of facial recognition technology. In November, Orlando Police Department ...

Meta Platforms is planning to bring facial recognition back, this time through its smart glasses, five years after discontinuing the feature on Facebook amid privacy and legal concerns. The internal ...

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The hardware chain won its bid to overturn a 2024 ruling that found Bunnings breached customers’ privacy by scanning their faces. The Administrative Review Tribunal found earlier this year that ...

The use of automatic license plate readers has exploded across the country in recent years. The cameras on roads and freeways that take images of the back of passing cars are popular with police for ...