The Baltimore City Council recently passed an ordinance, in a vote of 13-2, barring the use of facial recognition technology by city residents, businesses, and most of the city government (excluding the city police department) until December 2022.
The FBI, U.S. Park Police, and other agencies used the technology during the height of 2020’s protests, according to a new government watchdog report.
A bill touted as the country’s strictest statewide regulation on the use of facial recognition technology has become law in Maine.
TikTok has updated its U.S. privacy policy to make clear that it might collect your biometric information, but none of this really changes anything.
Investors and activists are presenting Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, and Twitter with a list of shareholder resolutions this week.
Queueing at passport controls could become a thing of the past under plans for fully automated border checks.
Amazon.com is extending until further notice a moratorium it imposed last year on police use of its facial recognition software.
In a win for privacy, the Court of Justice of São Paulo blocks facial recognition on a public transport route.
Police tapped the surveillance system to identify and detain dozens of people who attended last week’s protests in the Russian capital in support of jailed Kremlin foe Alexey Navalny.
A facial recognition surveillance system from Verkada has been purchased in North Caroline by a rural school district in northwest of Charlotte.
A new tool is promising to make your pictures undetectable to facial recognition software without significantly changing their appearance.
The sweeping bill has support from both Democrats and Republicans, and will address multiple forms of surveillance.