The Los Angeles Police Commission has given the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) permission to continue to use facial recognition, though it did place some restrictions on the practice. The […]

Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That has confirmed that the use of his company’s controversial facial recognition platform skyrocketed on the day after last week’s violent pro-Trump riot in Washington, D.C. Law […]

Alibaba is trying to distance itself from its own Alibaba Cloud division, and in particular from a controversial facial recognition program that is able to identify people based on their […]

Dongguan city has suspended its use of facial recognition in public restrooms. The city had been using facial recognition to limit the amount of toilet paper that visitors could take […]

Some members of the academic community are starting to question the dubious ethical foundations of facial recognition research. The critics are particularly concerned about the ways in which biometric data […]

An apparent pay-for-play service has raised serious concerns about the integrity of Moscow’s facial recognition system. The network was launched back in January, and is theoretically restricted to law enforcement […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has filed an amicus brief in the case of the ACLU v. Clearview AI to contest Clearview’s claim that an injunction would violate the company’s […]

Biometric technologies have been going through a process of mainstream adoption for several years now. Having once been considered the stuff of futuristic science fiction, things like fingerprint scanners are […]

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 […]