The city of New Orleans is already looking to walk back its facial recognition ban. The city’s current ban has been in effect since December of 2020, and was passed […]

Clearview AI’s controversial facial recognition platform continues to perform well in independent testing. The company was the top-rated US solution in NIST one-to-one Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) results that […]

The Mayor of West Lafayette, Indiana, has followed through on his promise to veto a proposed facial recognition ban. The ban had originally been put forward by a group of […]

The Russian facial recognition specialist NtechLab is expanding into the Middle East. The company has opened a new office in Abu Dhabi, from which representatives will market its products to […]

The UK’s new Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner is breaking from his predecessors on the subject of facial recognition. In that regard, Commissioner Fraser Sampson told the Financial Times that […]

The RCMP is once again facing heavy scrutiny for its questionable use of facial recognition technology. The latest controversy focuses specifically on the organization’s British Columbia Division, which violated the […]

Another Chinese facial recognition provider is coming under fire for developing technology that would allow the police to identify members of the country’s minority Uighur Muslim population. The news comes […]

The Los Angeles Police Department has announced that its officers are no longer allowed to use any third-party facial recognition software. The edict stops short of a full ban, since […]

Federal and provincial privacy commissioners have determined that Cadillac Fairview collected the biometric information of 5 million Canadian shoppers without proper consent. Cadillac Fairview is a commercial real estate company […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed a comment with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to express its opposition to policy changes that would dramatically expand DHS’s ability to […]