The Russian government continues to provide ammunition for Western critics of facial recognition technology, this time by using it to arrest scores of pro-democracy civilians. According to a report from […]

Israeli police are backing a bill that would give them sweeping biometric surveillance powers. The bill was recently published in draft form, and would codify a practice that has already […]

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 […]

Prompted by an outcry from the New York Civil Liberties Union, officials with New York State Department of Education and the Lockport City School District are trying to hammer out […]

As controversy over the public use of facial recognition continues, Microsoft is following Google’s lead in laying out its approach to the ethics of the technology in a new blog […]

Just a month after the ACLU made Amazon’s sale of facial recognition technology to government authorities a matter of public debate, a group of prominent Amazon shareholders are calling on […]

Police have reached out to an academic researcher to help them unlock a murder victim’s smartphone via fingerprint scan, believing that the device may contain clues about who killed him. […]