Meta Considers Adding Facial Recognition To Its Smart Glasses

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

Iris ID debuts in NIST FRTE 1:1, ROC impresses with updated algorithm

Iris ID’s results placed it just ahead of the middle of the pack among the more than 350 facial recognition algorithms submitted to the FRTE 1:1, topping out at 112th in the BORDER-BORDER category ...
Forbes

Combating Deepfakes: Using Facial Recognition Techniques To Protect Businesses

The World Economic Forum’s "Global Risks Report 2024" notes that foreign and domestic actors leveraging misinformation—often generated by AI—is among the most adverse threats the world will face in ...
Aclu.org

When it Comes to Facial Recognition, There is No Such Thing as a Magic Number

We often hear about government misuse of face recognition technology (FRT) and how it can derail a person’s life through wrongful arrests and other harms. Despite mounting evidence, government ...

Met police to pilot facial recognition identity checks, mayor confirms

Sadiq Khan reveals 100 officers will use roaming technology for six months but opponents call its use ‘alarming’ ...
Afro

Inequitable algorithms: Facial recognition’s alarming pattern of misidentifying Black individuals sparks calls for reform

(NNPA NEWSWIRE) – Recent research conducted by Scientific American Online supported fears that facial recognition technology (FRT) can worsen racial inequities in policing. The research found that law ...
WDSU

Face Value: How facial recognition is fighting crime, raising controversy

ORLEANS POLICE CATCH FUGITIVES, STOP CRIME TRACK AND TERROR SUSPECTS IN REAL TIME. BUT TODAY, THAT ALERT SYSTEM IS SILENT TO NOPD. CASSIE SCHERM INVESTIGATES WHY IT WAS PAUSED AND WHAT THE CITY MAY BE ...
News Medical

Facial recognition algorithms show genetic similarities in genetically unrelated look-alike humans

In a recent study published in Cell Reports, researchers identified look-alike humans, who were genetically unrelated, using facial recognition (FR) algorithms for multi-omics studies. Historically, ...