NEC Corporation of America is celebrating another strong performance on the part of its NeoFace facial recognition technology in the Department of Homeland Security’s annual Biometric Technology Rally. The testing […]

“Now, the NPL study on NEC’s technology offers further evidence that the racial bias problem can be ameliorated, and even eliminated.” After years of intense debate over facial recognition’s shortcomings, […]

Meta has announced a new, open-source dataset for AI training that the company is hoping will reduce the kind of demographic bias that has been documented by researchers at the […]

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has revealed the results from its 2022 Biometric Technology Rally, and is putting skin tone imaging in the spotlight as key area […]

A federal judge has dismissed an almost identical pair of Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) lawsuits against Amazon and Microsoft in a ruling that could prove consequential for the biometrics […]

Clearview AI‘s facial recognition database now has 30 billion images, according to CEO Hoan Ton-That. It’s the latest illustration of the platform’s rapid – and massive – scaling, with Clearview […]

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is working with the Department of Homeland Security to develop an image quality assessment tool that could play an important role in […]

ID R&D now has independent test results that attest to the integrity of its liveness detection system. The evaluation looked for possible bias in ID R&D’s IDLive Face solution, which […]

Another Long Beach, California, Commission is calling for a ban on the police use of facial recognition technology. The city’s Technology and Innovation Commission voiced its support for a ban […]

Law enforcement agencies and industry lobbyists are starting to push back against some of the facial recognition bans that were put in place across the United States. A little more […]