facial recognition

The IRS is abandoning plans to require facial recognition to authenticate online access following criticism from politicians, privacy advocates, and tech experts, forcing the agency…

Meta, the newly announced parent company behind the aging and controversial social media platform Facebook, has revealed huge plans involving its facial recognition technology. In…

In the Android world, smartphone makers have long moved away from traditional notches to punch-hole cutouts. Some, like ZTE, Xiaomi, and now Samsung, have even…

Just when face recognition was shaping up to be the de facto biometric security system for smartphones, the world was hit with a pandemic that…

Samsung has been making good in its promise to roll out Android updates more regularly, even if a bit belatedly. Part of that involves improving…

Smartphones have been using biometric authentication like fingerprints and faces long before those became more common on laptops and even desktops. Microsoft's Windows Hello framework…

Tencent has announced that it is now using facial recognition to enforce China's gaming curfew for minors, one that forces them to play games only…

Intel has launched a new facial recognition system, aiming to bring Face ID-style biometric access to ATMs, smart locks, and more. Intel RealSense ID pulls…

Smart locks have been offering hi-tech ways to secure our homes but their apps ironically only provide old and less secure ways of securing access…

Another major city in the United States, Boston, has banned the use of facial recognition technology for surveillance purposes, stating that not only does this…

From the very start, there have been concerns about how facial recognition technology was being made available too easily to "the right people" with the…