A controversial facial recognition tech company behind a vast face image search engine widely used by cops has been fined approximately $33 million in the Netherlands for serious data privacy ...

Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes ...

A crop of startups are deploying tools that let you search for people based on their faces, worrying privacy advocates and elected officials that the end of publicly anonymity is around the corner. At ...

Reverse facial recognition is a tool. Powerful, accessible, ambivalent. It fascinates with its promises—recovering an identity, checking an online presence, preventing a scam—but alarms with its risks ...

Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person. This isn't a hypothetical ...

Experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead. By Kashmir Hill A man whom the police are ...

You post a photo online. Maybe it’s a headshot, a group pic, or a snapshot from vacation. A week later, your image pops up on a website you’ve never seen, attached to a name that isn’t yours. Welcome ...

At a supermarket or a baseball game or most public places, you can generally expect to be anonymous. That could end if big tech companies release a tool that lets you search for a person by taking a ...

Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person. This isn't a hypothetical ...

Like Apple Face ID, except on steroids Of course, some version of facial recognition tools are already out in the world. Unlocking iPhones with Apple's Face ID. And at airports, the Transportation ...