The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside providers in recent years. Yet only 5 percent of the 200 agents with ...

In 2017, detectives working a cold case at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department got an idea, one that might help them finally get a lead on the murder of Maria Jane Weidhofer.

Microsoft has reaffirmed its ban on U.S. police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition through Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully ...

Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand surveillance of protesters and students. Police and federal agencies have found a controversial ...

A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America. If it fails, it'll be a blow to a once-promising movement. Just four years ago, the ...

On January 9, 2020, Detroit Police Department (DPD) officers arrested me on my front lawn in Farmington Hills, Michigan, in front of my wife and two young daughters, for a crime I had nothing to do ...

A DHS analysis found that self-identified Black volunteers who participated in testing of TSA’s biometric tools had the lowest face matching success rate of any demographic group, with an overall ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is using a smartphone app to identify people based on an image of their fingerprints or face, 404 Media reported Thursday, based on a review of internal ICE ...

The Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ESRB) is blasting recent reports that suggest the organization is planning to use facial recognition tech on children, adding that it has no intention of ...

Engineers at the tech giants built tools years ago that could put a name to any face but, for once, Silicon Valley did not want to move fast and break things. Credit...By Shira Inbar Supported by By ...