The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office has decided against a contract for facial recognition technology. Sheriff Denita Ball cited community concerns and the importance of public trust in the decision.

Biometric authentication—the ability to unlock your devices by using just your face or fingerprint—is one of the few smartphone features that, even today, leave me feeling like we’re living in the ...

TONIGHT, BRAND NEW INFORMATION IN A WESH TWO INVESTIGATES EXCLUSIVE AND THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS ON HOW A CENTRAL FLORIDA MAN WAS ARRESTED LAST YEAR FOR CRIMES HE DID NOT COMMIT. WE’VE NOW LEARNED ...

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart ...

Meta plans to add a facial recognition feature to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, reports The New York Times ($). According to people involved in the plans who spoke to the publication ...

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 ...

A Mexican man who spent nearly a year in jail after being wrongfully arrested for a 1998 Phoenix murder is threatening to sue Phoenix and Maricopa County unless officials agree to settle for $3 ...

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 ...

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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 ...