The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has tried to articulate the difference between the public and private use of facial recognition. The privacy watchdog has consistently pushed to ban the government […]

The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is asking the Canadian government to suspend the use of facial recognition at the country’s borders to give legislators an […]

Some Chinese citizens are starting to push back against the widespread use of facial recognition, according to a South China Morning Post report. In that regard, they are worried that […]

“…the ACM offers several guidelines for how facial recognition technology could be used responsibly, including establishing regular and ongoing auditing programs that would help to ensure that such systems are […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published the transcript of Jennifer Lynch’s testimony to the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice. Lynch is the Surveillance Litigation […]

“Legislators haven’t yet drawn up the standards to be upheld by the new Biometrics Commissioner, but it’s clear that the official will be primarily concerned with the collection and handling […]

The European Union is walking back from a temporary ban on the public use of facial recognition, according to a Reuters report. The possibility of a ban was previously raised […]

Democratic junior senator Chris Coons (D-Delaware) is cosponsoring a bipartisan piece of legislation that aims to regulate the use of facial recognition technology on the federal level. The other sponsor […]

The town of Brookline, Massachusetts, has officially moved forward with its facial recognition ban. The proposed ban was first tabled back in August with the blessing of Brookline State Senator […]

Law enforcement’s unmonitored use of facial recognition technology has come under increasing scrutiny in the past few months. Bernie Sanders has echoed San Francisco and called for a complete ban […]