Police have scanned 400,000 people using live facial recognition in Hampshire, the Isle of Wight and the Thames Valley.

Connecticut lawmakers plan to introduce legislation to ban the practice in retail establishments statewide.

Consumers must give "informed consent" for their biometric data to be used, according to state officials.

The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) secretly received real-time, AI-generated alerts from 200 facial recognition cameras throughout the city for two years, despite a city ordinance barring ...

The Aurora Police Department wants to add facial recognition software to its crime-fighting toolkit. The technology, already used in other Colorado cities, has long been controversial. Civil rights ...

When traveling, many people allow their faces to be scanned at airports. There are plenty of problems with facial recognition technology — but perhaps one of the biggest is that people don’t know they ...

MELBOURNE, Nov 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As guests arrive at eastern Australia's Warilla Hotel, a small camera equipped with facial recognition software scans their faces as part of a scheme to ...

In a move that human rights advocates warn carries potential risks for civil rights, Russia has begun expanding its facial-recognition payment system for subways to six cities outside of Moscow. Kazan ...

Facebook and Instagram have a problem. Well, they have many, many problems, but one of the ones they feel like addressing is “celeb-bait ads and impersonation.” According to a new post from parent ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and facial-recognition technologies in policing is contributing to a “worrying rowback” in the civil and political rights of people of colour in the UK, ...

On Sept. 12, 2014, this announcement appeared on the Transportation Security Administration’s website: “The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that ...

The parent company of Instagram and Facebook is also trying out facial recognition features designed to help users get back into locked accounts faster. Bree Fowler writes about cybersecurity and ...