British authorities have ramped up the use of facial recognition, artificial intelligence and internet regulation to address crime and other issues, stoking concerns of surveillance overreach. British ...

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify, ...

Senator Edward J. Markey teamed up with fellow US Senator Ron Wyden, of Oregon, to demand answers from immigration officials about their use of facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology ...

In a letter directed to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons, three U.S. senators are calling for the controversial government agency to cease use of “Mobile Fortify,” a ...

A lawsuit in Illinois accuses Home Depot of collecting customer data without consent. The plaintiff, Benjamin Jankowski, filed the class action suit against Home Depot on August 1 in US District Court ...

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman who was charged in a carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology. Sign ...

(TNS) — A new touchless security checkpoint system is operating at Harry Reid International Airport, just in time for Labor Day travel and in advance of fall and winter holidays and next year’s ...

New York City’s largest group of public defenders is calling on the city to investigate the NYPD’s use of facial recognition technology, which it says has led to several false arrests. In a letter ...

A hot potato: US states are imposing stricter rules on how tech companies collect, analyze, and monetize biometric data, including facial features, iris patterns, and other unique identifiers. While ...

States are increasingly clamping down on how tech companies digitally scan and analyze our most sensitive and potentially lucrative commodity: the faces, eyeballs and other "biometric" data of ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Civil rights and privacy groups are demanding an investigation into the NYPD's alleged misuse of facial recognition technology after a false match led to a man being wrongfully ...