Facial recognition technology is revolutionizing how consumers shop, travel and purchase. It is used to better secure airport, hospital, retail store and entertainment venue entry points. It is also ...

The company denies its new government deal enables ‘general purpose’ biometric surveillance. Human rights advocates disagree. The company denies its new government deal enables ‘general purpose’ ...

A rising number of British stores are using a facial recognition system powered by artificial intelligence to identify repeat shoplifters in what one human rights group has called the spread of ...

Facial recognition was a late-blooming technology: It went through 40 years of floundering before it finally matured. At the 1970 Japan World Exposition, a primitive computer tried—mostly in vain—to ...