In November, voters in Bellingham, Washington, passed a ballot measure banning government use of face recognition technology. It added to a streak of such laws that started with San Francisco in 2019 ...

Last week, in a humanities class at a highly selective university in the Northeast, a student played The New York Times’ Spelling Bee game on a phone, according to another student who sat within view.

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Our reporter took a five-mile walk around Manhattan to find businesses that are using facial recognition technology. By Kashmir Hill Kashmir Hill writes about privacy and technology and welcomes any ...

In April 2018, Bronx public defender Kaitlin Jackson was assigned to represent a man accused of stealing a pair of socks from a TJ Maxx store. The man said he couldn’t have stolen the socks because at ...

Generally, there are two types of facial-recognition software: one compares a photo of a person to those in a database of faces looking for a likely match (the kind of software police might use when ...

The technology was used to bar an audience member from a New York City theater. For nearly a century, people have flocked every holiday season to Radio City Music Hall to watch the famous Rockettes ...

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Facial recognition software is speeding up check-in at airports, cruise ships and theme parks, but experts worry about risks to security and privacy. By Julie Weed You may not have to fumble with your ...