The International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) is trying to alleviate people’s fears about facial recognition, especially with regards to accuracy and racial bias. To that end, the organization has […]

The racial bias that tends to be displayed by numerous facial recognition algorithms seems to be intensified when subjects are wearing face masks, according to officials from the Department of […]

The United States Justice Department recently revealed that in June of 2020, a facial recognition system in Austria helped track down and capture a fugitive who had been on the […]

In the past few years, it has become increasingly clear that a facial recognition system is only as good as the subjects that were used to put it together. Critics […]

Pending Senate confirmation, the next head of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will be the current vice president of research at the University of Maryland, Laurie E. […]

The NIST has released a new report that suggests that facial recognition is an effective screening tool in airport settings. In the report, the NIST evaluated the performance of 29 […]

Fight for the Future is spearheading a campaign to ban the use of facial recognition technology in restaurants and retail outlets. The appropriately-named Ban Facial Recognition in Stores campaign has […]

The Mayor of West Lafayette, Indiana, is throwing himself in front of a bill that would ban the police use of facial recognition. The West Lafayette City Council has postponed […]

According to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), six U.S. federal agencies used biometric facial recognition software in their efforts to identify protesters who demonstrated in the […]

Google has revealed that it is currently trying to develop a replacement for the Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST) scale. The FST first became popular in the 1970s, when it was […]