WTF?! Facial recognition systems aren't always accurate, and the consequences of these mistakes can be severe. One of the worst instances of AI getting things wrong is the case of Angela Lipps, a ...

The Metropolitan Police are set to trial handheld facial recognition technology that will allow officers to conduct biometric checks on the spot, the Mayor of London has confirmed. Known as ...

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. The agency is ...

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Emilio De Torre compared it to buying a lottery ticket. The executive director of the Milwaukee Turners met in September with Police Chief Jeffrey Norman and Heather Hough, the department’s chief of ...

Meta is considering adding facial recognition to its smart glasses. Internal documents from Meta suggest the company may time the launch to mitigate public scrutiny. The technology raises serious ...

Library advocates are asking state legislators to fully fund the Connecticut reciprocal borrowing program “borrowIT CT” after Gov. Ned Lamont proposed a 20% cut to the program’s budget. BorrowIT CT, ...

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Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart ...

Five years after shutting down facial recognition on Facebook over privacy concerns, Meta is preparing to bring the technology back – this time through its smart glasses. According to reports, the ...

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 ...

Law enforcement is increasingly relying on technology that scans physical traits to identify people during arrests. Some of that technology is made in Massachusetts. For instance, Immigration and ...