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.

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

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.

The Fight to Stop Face Recognition Technology Face recognition surveillance presents an unprecedented threat to our privacy and civil liberties. It gives governments, companies, and individuals the ...

Computer scientist Joy Buolamwini warns that facial recognition technology is riddled with the biases of its creators. She is the author of Unmasking AI and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League.

Face-mask recognition has arrived—for better or worse New algorithms can police whether people are complying with public health guidance. The practice raises familiar questions about data privacy.

FindFace has a 70% accuracy for identifying strangers and could be a game-changer for law enforcement.

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.