The New York Police Department’s use of facial recognition is under scrutiny after a false match led to the wrongful arrest of a Black man. In February, a woman reported a delivery man — around 5 feet ...

States are increasingly clamping down on how tech companies digitally scan and analyze our most sensitive and potentially lucrative commodity: the faces, eyeballs and other "biometric" data of ...

London’s Metropolitan Police deployed live facial recognition at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival. The technology, which has been used by U.K. police 111 times this year, has stirred debate over ...

Trevis Williams is eight inches taller than a man accused of flashing a woman in Union Square in February. The police arrested him anyway. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times Supported by ...

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The Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial-recognition (LFR) technology is unlawful, according to UK equality watchdog, citing the need for deployments of the technology to be necessary, ...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) recently announced updates to its Design for Recyclability Recognition program, adding new packaging components that now are eligible for Preferred Design ...

In today’s Tech Bytes, TSA’s new facial recognition ID program is now operating at 14 airports. Four airlines, Delta, United, American, and Alaska are participating. Passengers must have an airline ...

Travelers participating in the program can use their face in TSA precheck instead of providing a physical form of identification. Trump Claims He’s The Highest Polling Republican President In ...

Joy Buolamwini, founder of the Algorithmic Justice League, which recently released a report on the TSA's biometric scanning technology, says that 74% of surveyed individuals were unaware they could ...