Experts fear that the data and analytics harvested from real-time face recognition may be capitalized on for profit and that the systems will be ripe for overuse.

At the body camera and stun-gun giant Axon, a face off is brewing over the ethics–and potentially fatal errors–of automated face recognition. A police officer is patrolling the neighborhood ...

As racial bias in policing becomes a national issue, the focus is turning to the tech that critics say enables it.

A growing number of surveillance firms and tech start-ups are racing to integrate face recognition and other AI capabilities into real-time video.

Police departments around the US use face recognition in highly varied ways, with little consensus on best practices.