Face Recognition Is Being Banned—but It’s Still Everywhere Two dozen cities and states prohibit use of the tech. But it’s on phones and is increasingly used in airports and in banks.

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.

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

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.

How TSA's facial recognition program could protect privacy rights As airports grow more crowded and identity fraud increases, implementing state-of-the-art security protocols is essential.