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.

Our biometric data is freely available to anybody with an AI model and a camera. Facial recognition software is such a pervasive technology that we submit our data whenever we go through airport ...

One of the biggest fantasies -- and fears -- in the sci-fi-like realm of smart glasses is the idea of looking across a room, seeing someone, and instantly recognizing who they are. And remembering the ...

Thaddeus Johnson, a former police officer, is a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and teaches criminology at Georgia State University. Natasha Johnson is a faculty member at the Andrew ...

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