In 2025, the U.S. facial recognition industry was valued at USD 2.47 billion. Growth is fueled by rapid AI advancements and federal security initiatives, alongside widespread adoption across law ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has quietly turned facial recognition into a roaming checkpoint that can follow people from sidewalks to protests to traffic stops. What began as a back office tool ...

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest To End Privacy as We Know It, by Kashmir Hill, Random House, 352 pages, $28.99 "Do I want to live in a society ...

Microsoft Teams is one step closer to rolling out a “desktop client face enrollment process,” which will allow it to scan the faces of users to determine their identity. Once the somewhat creepy ...

Update, Dec. 27, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 25 now includes a breakdown of the know your customer attack threat methodology that the newly discovered dark web facial identity resource ...

WIRED learned this week that Amazon Web Services investigated claims that the AI search startup Perplexity may have violated the cloud company's rules by appearing to pull data from websites that have ...

The FBI has charged multiple people with crimes like vandalism after determining their identities using the controversial technology, according to court records.

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 ...