Facial Recognition

UK pushes ahead with facial recognition expansion despite civil liberties backlash

Plan would create statutory powers for police use of biometrics, prompting warnings of mass surveillance

Security05 Dec 2025 | 49

Uncle Sam wants to scan your iris and collect your DNA, citizen or not

DHS rule would expand biometric collection to immigrants and some citizens linked to them

Public Sector04 Nov 2025 | 46

Metropolitan Police hails facial recognition tech after record year for arrests

But question marks remain over the tech’s biases

Security03 Nov 2025 | 35

Smile! Uncle Sam wants to scan your face on the way in – and out

Noncitizens, prepare to have your mugshot stored for up to 75 years

Public Sector29 Oct 2025 | 133

EU biometric border system launch hits inevitable teething problems

Malfunctioning equipment and manual processing cause 90-minute waits

Public Sector14 Oct 2025 | 47

Explain digital ID or watch it fizzle out, UK PM Starmer told

Politico avoids the topic at Labour conference speech, homes in on AI instead

Public Sector01 Oct 2025 | 124

Britain's policing minister punts facial recog nationwide

Met's Croydon cameras hailed as a triumph, guidance to be published later this year

Security30 Sep 2025 | 67

Sainsbury's eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition

Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom

Security04 Sep 2025 | 115

Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show

High accuracy scores come from conditions that don't reflect real-world usage

Research18 Aug 2025 | 31

UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new vans heading to a town near you

Seven additional regions across England will now have access to the controversial tech

Security13 Aug 2025 | 78

UK secretly allows facial recognition scans of passport, immigration databases

updated Campaigners brand Home Office’s lack of transparency as ‘astonishing’ and ‘dangerous’

AI + ML08 Aug 2025 | 126

The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much

Few passengers are told they can opt out, and when they do, airport staff may push back

Security31 Jul 2025 | 38

Privacy campaigners pour cold water on London cops' 1,000 facial recognition arrests

Activists argue the resources spent on tech aren't leading to worthwhile numbers

Security09 Jul 2025 | 32

Frozen foods supermarket chain deploys facial recognition tech

Privacy campaigner brands Iceland's use of 'Orwellian' camera tech 'chilling,' CEO responds: 'It'll cut violent crime'

Security26 Jun 2025 | 119

US govt login portal could be one cyberattack away from collapse, say auditors

Login.gov hasn't shown its backup testing policy is working, GAO warns

Public Sector04 Jun 2025 | 13

Show us your face: New Orleans PD reportedly got secret facial recognition alerts

Police took Big Easy attitude to the rules, says WaPo

Legal19 May 2025 | 8

Altman's eyeball-scanning biometric blockchain orbs officially come to America

El Reg checks out shop in SF

Bootnotes04 May 2025 | 53

China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms

Asia In Brief PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more

Security23 Mar 2025 | 19

TSA’s airport facial-recog tech faces audit probe

Senators ask, Homeland Security watchdog answers: Is it worth the money?

Security03 Feb 2025 | 22

AI facial recognition could sink this murder probe

updated Cops relied on unreliable tech for search warrant, omitted details ... so judge bins off evidence

AI + ML28 Jan 2025 | 36

Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition

You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy

AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 47

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

McDonald's worker called it in, cops swooped, found 'gun, suppressor, manifesto'

Security10 Dec 2024 | 128

Smile! UK cops spend tens of millions on live facial recognition tech

Labour government keen, though critics paint it as a severe threat to privacy

Software25 Nov 2024 | 71

Hardware barn denies that .004 seconds of facial recognition violated privacy

Claims it was just spotting shoppers who threatened staff at Bluey's favorite big box store

AI + ML19 Nov 2024 | 32

Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts

Withholding exculpatory evidence from suspects isn't a great look when the tech is already questionable

Security07 Oct 2024 | 23

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

'You can build this in a few days – even as a very naïve developer'

Cybersecurity Month04 Oct 2024 | 114

Remote ID verification tech is often biased, bungling, and no good on its own

Only 2 out of 5 tested products were equitable across demographics

Public Sector30 Sep 2024 | 10

Data watchdog fines Clearview AI $33M for 'illegal' data collection

Selfie-scraper again claims European law does not apply to it

AI + ML03 Sep 2024 | 14

Keir Starmer says facial recognition tech is the answer to far-right riots

The technology remains highly controversial despite widespread rollout

Public Sector05 Aug 2024 | 291

Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends

Everything's bigger in Texas – even the settlement deals

AI + ML30 Jul 2024 | 16

School gets an F for using facial recognition on kids in canteen

Watchdog reprimand follows similar cases in 2021

Security24 Jul 2024 | 96

Can I phone a friend? How cops circumvent face recognition bans

Updated Just ask a pal in a neighboring town with laxer restrictions

Security20 May 2024 | 9

Microsoft doesn't want cops using Azure AI for facial recognition

Facial recognition based on body cam footage? Absolutely not ... in our cloud, says Microsoft

Off-Prem04 May 2024 | 14

Palantir boss says outfit's software the only reason the 'goose step' has not returned to Europe

Motor-mouth CEO Alex Karp claims biz stopped 'innumerable' terror attacks in Europe

Bootnotes28 Feb 2024 | 97

Data watchdog tells off outsourcing giant for scanning staff biometrics despite 'power imbalance'

2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed 'unlawfully', ICO says

Security26 Feb 2024 | 9

UK lawmakers say live facial recognition lacks a legal basis

Lords warn Home Secretary there is nothing to regulate wider trawl of large populations

Public Sector30 Jan 2024 | 32

Macy's and Sunglass Hut sued for $10M over face-recog arrest and 'sexual assault'

Man, 61, cuffed and allegedly attacked after 'faulty' AI software blundered

AI + ML24 Jan 2024 | 36

Facial recognition tech has outpaced US law – and don't expect the Feds to catch up

Comment Let's be realistic: If the EU can't regulate it well, America definitely won't

Public Sector17 Jan 2024 | 10

FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years

Among the mistakes, an 11-year-old girl was misidentified as a shoplifter and searched

AI + ML20 Dec 2023 | 35

Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports

Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days

Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 40

Watchdog bites back against blockage of $9M fine on US selfie-scraper Clearview AI

Updated Britain's ICO claims tribunal misinterpreted law, wants case revisited

Personal Tech17 Nov 2023 | 11

UK policing minister urges doubling down on face-scanning tech

'No question' it will solve more crimes, Tory MP claims

Security31 Oct 2023 | 48

US government's Login.gov turns frown upside down, now smiles on facial recognition

Authentication portal to match snaps on existing IDs with user-provided snaps

Personal Tech19 Oct 2023 | 23

Chinese citizens feel their government is doing such a fine job with surveillance

They know they're being watched and don't mind - maybe because Beijing says it improves safety

Security13 Oct 2023 | 38

Yes, Singapore immigration plans to scan your face instead of your passport

No, that does not mean you can leave it at home just yet

Security02 Oct 2023 | 16

Watchdog urges change of HART: Late, expensive US biometric ID under fire

Homeland Security told to mind costs, fix up privacy controls

Security13 Sep 2023 | 3

Get a $25 gift card if you help the US check whether these facial logins really work

NB: That will involve handing over your selfies and other personal info to AI outfits to experiment with

AI + ML21 Aug 2023 | 8

China – which surveils everyone everywhere – floats facial recognition rules

Regulator says with a straight face that it should not be allowed to analyze ethnicity

Security08 Aug 2023 | 12

Cops cuff pregnant woman for carjacking after facial recog gets it wrong, again

Not-so smart tech, or officers, it seems

AI + ML08 Aug 2023 | 86

Hikvision, Nvidia named in contract for 'Uyghur detection'

Updated GPU giant says you can't stop secondary sales, surveillance gear maker maintains innocence

Security31 Jul 2023 | 8

No-no cop: Illinois bans drones from using facial recognition or weapons

But police are allowed to fly them for 'public safety' missions

AI + ML17 Jun 2023 | 29

Facial recog system used by Met Police shows racial bias at low thresholds

Tech used at King's Coronation employs higher thresholds on once-only watch-lists, Met tells MPs

Security25 May 2023 | 20

Phones' facial recog tech 'fooled' by low-res 2D photo

Someone who looks a lot like you could also unlock it, says Which?

Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 38

UK's GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

Question not whether UK police should use facial recog, but how, says surveillance chief

Security19 May 2023 | 102

Smile! UK cops reckon they've ironed out gremlins with real-time facial recog

Report says code has improved – and thousands could still end up falsely ID'd, argue privacy advocates

AI + ML06 Apr 2023 | 39

NYPD blues: Cops ignored 93 percent of surveillance law rules

Who watches the watchmen? The Office of the Inspector General

Security31 Mar 2023 | 17