Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of UK police mass facial recognition searches against the passport and immigration databases. The Government has ...

We encrypt face images to provide biometric and database security. Face recognition is central to many authentication, security, and personalized applications. Yet, it suffers from significant privacy ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

The rapid proliferation of doorbell cameras and AI-powered facial recognition tools like Clearview AI has effectively eliminated public anonymity, aiding law enforcement in solving crimes while ...

United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the ...

Margarita Vladimirova used to work for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. A seemingly minor decision handed down last week by the Administrative Review Tribunal may open the door ...

A years-long debate over the use of facial recognition software by the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) came to a head at a contentious Thursday meeting of the city’s Fire and Police Commission (FPC) ...

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Abstract: The research is devoted to the development of an automated face recognition system based on a convolutional neural network (CNN). The proposed system uses modern methods of image ...

Abstract: A person’s facial hairstyle, such as presence and size of beard, can significantly impact face recognition accuracy. While previous research has examined the facial hair effect using binary ...

Editor’s note: The above video is from a related story that KXAN reported in April 2025. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department has released its latest report of instances in which it used ...