Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

It is not feasible, nor indeed ethical, to run a facial recognition system against all images on the internet.

The LFR system not only identifies individuals based on their face biometrics, but is part of a platform that also connects them to their friends and family.

This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a ...

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The importance of face re-identification lies in its ability to provide a consistent and reliable means of identifying individuals. Unlike attributes such as clothing or gait, which can change ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) wants clearer rules for law enforcement agencies using facial recognition technology (FRT) and other biometric tech that will build on – and not ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are using a new facial recognition smartphone app called Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of both US citizens and immigrants. They point a phone ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests. By Adam Satariano Paul ...