The Los Angeles Police Commission has given the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) permission to continue to use facial recognition, though it did place some restrictions on the practice. The […]

Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That has confirmed that the use of his company’s controversial facial recognition platform skyrocketed on the day after last week’s violent pro-Trump riot in Washington, D.C. Law […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has recapped some of the key 2020 milestones in the battle against face-based surveillance. The organization called particular attention to a wave of facial recognition […]

Credas and the UK’s Surveillance Camera Commissioner are among those asking for clearer guidelines for the public use of facial recognition in the country. The interested parties are specifically looking […]

Alaska has officially updated its Automated Biometric Identification System (ABIS). The state’s biometric database has more than 600,000 fingerprints, gathered during criminal arrests and during hiring for select jobs that […]

The Massachusetts State Senate has passed a revised version of a police reform bill that was initially passed earlier this month. The revisions became necessary after Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker […]

Massachusetts is set to become the first state to ban the public use of facial recognition technology. To that end, both houses of the state legislature have now passed a […]

The Los Angeles Police Department has announced that its officers are no longer allowed to use any third-party facial recognition software. The edict stops short of a full ban, since […]

The citizens of Portland, Maine, have passed a ballot measure that will ban the public use of facial recognition technology. The new law specifically bars the police and other city […]

Clearview AI is trying to improve its image with some new features that are designed to prevent police abuses of its technology. Most notably, the update will ask officers to […]