What is it that makes a super recognizer—someone with extraordinary face recognition abilities—better at remembering faces ...

“Super-recognisers don’t just look harder, they look smarter. They choose the most useful parts of a face to take in,” says Dr James Dunn, lead author on the research that published today in the ...

New York web developer says your right to privacy is at stake. Jan. 10, 2012 — -- Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine. Sure, the cameras at banks ...

A DHS analysis found that self-identified Black volunteers who participated in testing of TSA’s biometric tools had the lowest face matching success rate of any demographic group, with an overall ...

Despite being penned by House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mark Green (R-Tenn.), Friday’s opinion piece urging “an alternative” to facial recognition technology offers a bizarre string of ...

"Concerns about facial recognition had been building for decades. And now the nebulous bogeyman had finally found its form: a small company with mysterious founders and an unfathomably large database.

Imagine this: You’re juggling groceries, your toddler’s backpack, and your phone is somewhere in the abyss of your bag. As you walk up to your front door, it scans your face and clicks open. No keys, ...

The study found higher rates of false-positive matches for people of color. Advocacy groups and lawmakers are renewing calls for a ban on government use of facial recognition technology in the wake of ...

For decades, Hollywood has presented audiences with futuristic disguises that were once thought only possible in science fiction. Silicone masks, fake contact lenses, and 3D printed biometrics are ...