Law enforcement officers in India have used facial recognition to arrest more than 1,100 people in what may be one of the more sweeping applications of biometric state surveillance. The […]

Another British privacy watchdog is asking the police to suspend their use of facial recognition, at least until the potential impact of face-based surveillance is more completely understood. The latest […]

“Hanvon says its biometric technology can identify everyone in a crowd of up to 30 people within one second.” As the impact of COVID-19 continues to have ripple effects in […]

Adroit Market Research has released a new report that predicts that the market for video analytics technology will exceed $11 billion in the next five years. That figure represents a […]

Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly has shed some light on the facial recognition trial that the force carried out in the first three months of 2019. The public first found […]

“In China, facial recognition cameras, coupled with the state’s broader surveillance capabilities, allow authorities to immediately access citizen’s travel histories, potentially enhancing their ability to track and control the virus’s […]

Administrators at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have abandoned their plans to bring facial recognition to the campus. The proposed surveillance system would have used facial recognition to […]

The International Biometrics + Identity Association (IBIA) is trying to put a more charitable spin on a recent NIST report that examines the performance of various facial recognition algorithms. The […]

The Salt Lake Tribune and Suffolk University have released the results of a poll that shows that Utah citizens are surprisingly comfortable with facial recognition. The poll was conducted after […]