A Black man is suing a Louisiana sheriff’s office for allegedly using facial identification software as the basis for a wrongful arrest that kept him in jail for days on theft charges, despite having ...

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is piloting facial recognition technologies that can see through face masks with a "promising" level of accuracy, meaning that travelers could end up ...

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 ...

This is huge news, for all the reasons that Google’s use of face recognition in its online offerings could change much about the web. By adding controls into iOS’ API, Apple’s allowing third-party ...

The future of facial recognition technology may depend on one very specific part of the face: the area around the eyes. Before the global pandemic, facial recognition systems typically worked by ...

POWERED BY advances in artificial intelligence (AI), face-recognition systems are spreading like knotweed. Facebook, a social network, uses the technology to label people in uploaded photographs.

Almost 200 face recognition algorithms—a majority in the industry—had worse performance on nonwhite faces, according to a landmark study. What they tested: The US National Institute of Standards and ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Meta ...