Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly turned facial recognition into a frontline tool, letting agents move from a snapshot to a knock on the door in minutes instead of days. What began as ...

Federal law requires the pass to use the winning photo from an annual contest. Donald Trump is famous for putting his name or likeness on buildings, steaks, and sneakers-- but his administration is ...

Your doorbell may soon greet your visitors by name… whether you want it to or not. Amazon’s Ring is rolling out a facial recognition feature called Familiar Faces. And while it promises helpful alerts ...

Dystopian or useful? Amazon’s Ring doorbells will now be able to identify your visitors through a new AI-powered facial-recognition feature, the company said on Tuesday. The controversial feature, ...

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New facial-recognition tools being tested at Orlando International Airport could soon be keeping track of travelers at departure gates across the country. By Christine Chung Reporting from Orlando, ...

I traveled through airports and reported in sports stadiums this year. At each, I was asked to scan my face for security. An AI security camera demo at an event in Las Vegas, Nevada. In the fall, my ...

Face recognition is a dragnet surveillance technology and its expansion within law enforcement over the last 20 years has been marred by systematic invasions of privacy, inaccuracies, unreliable ...

Some computer vision programs have been thrown off by tricks such as manipulating the pixels in an image. MODIFIED FROM ISTOCK.COM / EYEEM MOBILE GMBH Anyone with a computer has been asked to “select ...

The Trump administration has wiped a facial recognition policy from its website while further embracing the controversial technology and securing a $9 million contract with a company barred from ...

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