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 ...

WHEN WE GET BACK ABOVE FREEZING AGAIN. COMING UP IN WEATHERWATCH 12. >> THANKS, MARK. TONIGHT AN ABOUT-FACE FOR THE MILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT MPD NOW PAUSING THE USE OF FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BOSTON (SHNS) – Sweeping data privacy and immigration reforms are percolating on Beacon Hill, and U.S. Sen. Ed Markey targeted ...

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 ...

Federal immigration agents are using facial recognition technology that draws from US government biometric databases containing more than 1.2 billion face images, according to federal records reviewed ...

We’ve known for a while that ICE agents are using facial recognition apps to pull people’s details, but The New York Times does a good job of laying out the apps the agency uses, the Palantir-powered ...

A judicial review against the Metropolitan Police’s use of live facial recognition (LFR) will argue the force is unlawfully deploying the technology across London, without effective safeguards or ...

From Chicago to Minneapolis, federal immigration agents deployed on Trump administration crackdowns have relied on an unlikely tool in the heat of tense operations — cellphone cameras. That practice ...

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 ...

The grocery store chain Wegmans, among other retailers, is using face recognition on its customers — and scanning their faces for resemblance not only to accused shoplifters but also to people whose ...