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 ...

Google's largest smart display, the Google Nest Hub Max, includes a controversial feature that's always watching. Face Match, the name Google calls the technology, keeps a digital eye out for faces ...

A massive Chinese database storing millions of faces and vehicle license plates was left exposed on the internet for months before it quietly disappeared in August. While its contents might seem ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Google needs a wide array of face data A company spokesperson confirmed that the purpose of the scans is to ...

Matthias Marx says his face has been stolen. The German activist’s visage is pale and wide, topped with messy, blond hair. So far, these features have been mapped and monetized by three companies ...

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is currently responsible for the operation of a central hub of a facial recognition system that will link up identity-matching systems between government agencies ...

Every day, Facebook users upload hundreds of millions of photos to the social network. If they haven’t opted out, the software scans those photos in search of faces it recognizes. As users either ...

People are not going to, nor should they have to, start walking around outside with a bag over their head to avoid security cameras capturing images of them. Yet “face recognition allows for covert, ...

Led by Debbie Ma, we have developed a database of faces including images of more than 600 individuals, female and male, from a variety of racial and ethnic groups (Asian, Black, Latino, White). For ...