Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

It is not feasible, nor indeed ethical, to run a facial recognition system against all images on the internet.

States are increasingly clamping down on how tech companies digitally scan and analyze our most sensitive and potentially lucrative commodity: the faces, eyeballs and other "biometric" data of ...

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Artificial intelligence, while present in virtually every aspect of our daily lives, is far from perfect. That matters especially when its application impacts civil rights. Take, for example, facial ...

Meta is weighing a facial recognition add-on for smart glasses; the feature is called Name Tag, raising stalking and data ...