In 2017, detectives working a cold case at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department got an idea, one that might help them finally get a lead on the murder of Maria Jane Weidhofer.

Many people stare down face recognition technology every day as they unlock their smartphones. But this technology also has applications in people’s places of work. Employers can use it to clock ...

A national effort to ban police use of face recognition is facing a sobering reality: compromise This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly tech policy newsletter about power, ...

We're no strangers to face identification technology. iPhone users have been creating face profiles for Apple for years, and now biometric face scans help us complete all kinds of tasks, like ...

In a world increasingly defined by seamless digital experiences, the act of entering a building has remained curiously analog. Swiping a card, punching a code, or fumbling for a key feels out of step ...

Face recognition is a dragnet surveillance technology and its expansion within law enforcement over the last 20 years has been marred by systematic invasions of privacy, inaccuracies, unreliable ...