Harvard students used Meta Ray-Bans to do facial recognition. Meta execs once thought this was a good idea.
Before Meta Ray-Bans first launched, Meta executives weighed adding facial recognition software.
Facial Recognition
The Oppenheimer of AI
Michal Kosinski is pushing the boundaries of what artificial intelligence can do — and it terrifies him
A school used facial recognition tech for cafeteria payments. An internet law expert says it's rarely worth the risk.
A UK school broke the law by using facial recognition technology in its cafeteria without assessing the risks to the children's data.
Facial recognition tech is widespread now, but still might not recognize you
Facial recognition technology has become common, from Walmart Spark to the airport. But it still misidentifies women and people of color.
Facial recognition tech is probably coming to a lot more vending machines
Chris Russell of the Oxford Internet Institute says facial recognition technology is cheap, easy to install and is going to become increasingly common.
A 61-year-old man sues Macy's, saying he was jailed and assaulted after being falsely identified as a store robber by facial recognition
A Texas man is suing Macy's and EssilorLuxottica over the use of facial recognition tech that mistook him for an armed robber.
AI may be able to predict your political views based on how attractive you are, a recent study found
A new study shows that, the majority of the time, deep learning models can accurately predict someone's political leanings based on their picture.
TSA is rolling out a new facial recognition technology to check IDs at airports across the country
Baltimore-Washington International Airport is using new credential authentication technology to match passengers' real-time photos with their IDs.
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'
Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.
A New York grocery store is using biometrics including eye scanners and voice prints to identify repeat shoplifters. Some shoppers say that's creepy — even if it deters theft.
Fairway joins a list of retailers, including Lowe's, Macy's, and Albertsons, that have deployed facial recognition technology to catch shoplifters.
A $400 sweater tricks facial-recognition cameras into thinking you're a zebra or a giraffe to protect your privacy, its maker says
Facial-recognition cameras can be fooled by Cap-able's knitwear, which makes cameras think the wearer is not human, its privacy-focused maker says.
Ukraine's deputy prime minister says it is educating its citizens about the dangers of deepfakes as it fights Russian disinformation in 'a war of technologies'
Mykhailo Fedorov, the Ukrainian vice prime minister, called for a "digital blockade" to "throw Russia back many years into the past" at a Davos panel.
The TSA's facial recognition technology, which is currently being used at 16 major domestic airports, may go nationwide next year
The TSA has used various biometric technologies since the 9/11 terror attacks but its facial identification system is still a pilot program.
Clearview AI has committed 'abuses of biometric information,' civil-rights groups told the White House in newly published documents
As the White House crafted its AI Bill of Rights, several organizations contacted the office to express alarm about Clearview AI.
Walmart is facing a class action suit for allegedly violating an Illinois privacy law by using surveillance cameras and Clearview AI's facial recognition database
Walmart is facing a class action lawsuit over its alleged use of surveillance cameras and Clearview AI's facial recognition database.
Intel, SpaceX, Philip Morris, and dozens of other US companies were in a leaked database of users for a Russian facial recognition company
A leaked user list from NTech Lab, a Russia-based facial recognition company, has more than 1,100 entities, including dozens of US companies.
Democrat senators call ID.me's handling of user data 'careless, irresponsible, and improper' after Insider report
An Insider investigation found ID.me, which handles identity verification for several government agencies, left user data unsecured in internal tools.
$1.47 billion identity startup ID.me, which closed deals with unemployment agencies and the IRS, lays off staff after growth spurt
Identity verification company ID.me announced layoffs on Tuesday. It rapidly expanded during the pandemic as it secured lucrative government contracts.
Inside ID.me's torrid pandemic growth spurt, which led to frantic hiring, ill-equipped staff, and data-security lapses as the company closed lucrative deals with unemployment agencies and the IRS
Identity verification service ID.me won dozens of government contracts during the pandemic. Staff described endless backlogs and lax security practices.
Trust Stamp, a facial recognition company with a $7.2 million ICE contract, had dozens of peoples' data exposed in breach
Names, addresses, and driver's license data were exposed in the breach, though it doesn't appear to include the data of migrants.