David Edwards has spent over a decade reporting on social justice, human rights and politics for Raw Story. He also writes Crooks and Liars. He has a background in enterprise resource planning and ...

The Department of Homeland Security has issued new guidance requiring foreign nationals – including green card holders and other non-U.S. citizens living legally in the country, to be photographed ...

The United States’ anti-immigration regime already boasts an impressive arsenal of surveillance towers, cloud data bases, and automated visa systems. Adding to that panopticon is the personal phone of ...

U.S. citizens can opt out of the facial recognition process, which CBP intends to expand to all air, sea and land ports. Customs and Border Protection is now authorized to require biometrics from all ...

Real-world testing of live facial recognition (LFR) systems by UK and European police is a largely ungoverned “Wild West”, where the technology is tested on local populations without adequate ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X A suspect has been tracked down after allegedly attempting to steal a generator at Home Depot.

Walk into a shop, board a plane, log into your bank, or scroll through your social media feed, and chances are you might be asked to scan your face. Facial recognition and other kinds of face-based ...

There is an urgent need for the regulation of facial recognition technologies in the UK to protect people from the grave risk it poses to human rights. In light of this, we conducted research to see ...

The Aurora Police Department wants to add facial recognition software to its crime-fighting toolkit. The technology, already used in other Colorado cities, has long been controversial. Civil rights ...

Three years after its investigation commenced, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) has found that retail giant Kmart Australia Limited (Kmart ...