ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...

The software is from DataWorks Plus and will be used by a number of crime analysts to compare images or video from crime ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. One evening in March 2017, Hoan Ton-That, an Australian coder building a powerful ...

The Department of Homeland Security has switched to a mobile facial recognition system that combines two of the worst qualities a government surveillance tool can have: it tramples privacy and doesn't ...

The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) submitted a new measure that allows it to photograph any non-US citizen who enters or exits the country for facial recognition purposes. According to a ...

TSA is rolling out facial recognition technology at airport security checkpoints nationwide. The technology aims to streamline identity verification and improve ...

A woman strolls into a grocery store, thinking about grabbing some apples. Before she even reaches the produce aisle, a security camera has scanned her face. Whether the system is checking for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Journalist, analyst, author, podcaster. Two students at Harvard University have hooked Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses up to a facial ...

U.S. citizens can opt out of the facial recognition process, which CBP intends to expand to all air, sea and land ports. Customs and Border Protection is now authorized to require biometrics from all ...

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.