The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) is in the process of drafting new policy guidelines to govern its use of facial recognition. The Department is hoping to complete a draft of […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is arguing that law enforcement officers should not be able to collect someone’s DNA or perform searches in a consumer-facing genealogy database without first obtaining a […]

Amnesty International is launching a new “Ban the Scan” campaign in an effort to end the police use of facial recognition. The organization will begin its campaign in New York […]

IBM has come out in favor of restricting the export of facial recognition technologies to oppressive regimes. As Reuters reports, IBM’s statement is in response to a request for public […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has allied with several other civil rights and labor advocates to oppose California’s proposed A.B. 2261 legislation, which is currently in front of the state’s […]

Washington Governor Jay Inslee has officially signed the state’s new facial recognition bill into law. The state legislature passed the new regulations on March 12, and they will formally go […]