The Capture season three: experts in facial recognition and AI decipher the fact from the fiction

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

HyperVerge wins IndiaAI face authentication challenge; UIDAI taps six for VC prototypes

HyperVerge has been unveiled at an event in New Delhi as one of two winners in a national competition under India’s AI ...
Mother Jones

A Knock on the Window and a Glimpse of America’s Surveillance Future

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

Neurotechnology Updates MegaMatcher ID with Improved Face Liveness Detection

MegaMatcher ID 2025.2 introduces ISO-compliant Level 2 face liveness detection and enhanced capture controls for secure ...

Kinetech Awarded TXShare Cooperative Contract to Deliver Agentic AI Solutions to the Public Sector

Kinetech Cloud, LLC (Kinetech) has been awarded a cooperative purchasing contract by the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) through its TXShare program. Under Contract MSA #2025-018, ...
Futurism

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care

When Meta announced it would strip its failed VR goggles division for parts, the bet was simple: funnel that money into sleek, AI-powered smart glasses instead. Emboldened by the product’s early ...
The Verge

Meta reportedly wants to add face recognition to smart glasses while privacy advocates are distracted

An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is considering launching the feature ‘during a dynamic political environment.’ An internal memo reviewed by The New York Times says Meta is ...
The New York Times

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

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 ...
techtimes

Facial‑Recognition Smart Locks 2026: How 3D Face Unlock Door Lock Systems Beat Spoofing

Learn how facial‑recognition smart locks 2026 use 3D face unlock door lock systems, anti‑spoofing facial recognition security, liveness detection, and biometric smart lock encrypted access logs to ...
Wired

ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...
Mashable

Hinge tests facial recognition scans in these countries

The dating app Hinge is testing the facial recognition feature Face Check in a number of countries this quarter. That's according to its parent company, Match Group, which announced the test during ...
The New York Times

At Check-In, Your Face Is Increasingly Your ID

Facial recognition at security and immigration checkpoints and gates could ease airport hassles, even as the technology raises privacy concerns. By Christine Chung Travelers can expect biometric ...