Smile, you’re in the FBI face-recognition database Driver license, passport, visa pics in database—despite no criminal affiliation.

There are privacy concerns, but facial recognition now can help get your doctor visit, and your vacation, started.

The original NIST program, the Face Recognition Vendor Test program, started nearly 25 years ago with the U.S. Defense Department’s counterdrug efforts to evaluate prototypes funded by the U.S.

You can opt out of facial recognition in some cases, but the history and future of the technology suggest we’ll need bigger solutions to its privacy problems.

Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem Depending on how algorithms are trained, they could be significantly more accurate when identifying white faces than African American ones.

In her new book about facial recognition, Kashmir Hill shows how our expectations of privacy have been rewritten over the past few years.

Police say facial recognition technology has been instrumental in helping crack some tough cases, but in the last year, there have been claims of wrongful arrests.

Airlines turn to facial recognition technology ahead of holiday rush Your face could soon replace your boarding pass.