New algorithms can police whether people are complying with public health guidance. The practice raises familiar questions about data privacy. Video by Mark Thiessen and Rebecca Hale, National ...

A new study from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has tested how accurate commercial facial recognition algorithms are at identifying people wearing protective face masks. The ...

A study of 65 face recognition algorithms on masked photos found they were as good as the top performers in 2017 with no masks. Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior reporter ...

Our biometric data is freely available to anybody with an AI model and a camera. Facial recognition software is such a pervasive technology that we submit our data whenever we go through airport ...

Facial recognition has improved dramatically in only a few years. As of April 2020, the best face identification algorithm has an error rate of just 0.08% compared to ...

We often hear about government misuse of face recognition technology (FRT) and how it can derail a person’s life through wrongful arrests and other harms. Despite mounting evidence, government ...