Facebook made a surprise announcement Tuesday that it’s shutting down its facial recognition software. [T]he many specific instances where facial recognition can be helpful need to be weighed against ...

Facebook announced that it will shut down the social service’s facial-recognition system, and as part of that will delete more than 1 billion people’s individual facial-recognition templates. For more ...

Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes ...

Facebook and Instagram have a problem. Well, they have many, many problems, but one of the ones they feel like addressing is “celeb-bait ads and impersonation.” According to a new post from parent ...

U.K. police have experimented with the use of facial recognition technology on live surveillance video in public areas, as seen in this photo. In the U.S., police departments are also embracing the ...

Facebook's facial recognition research project, DeepFace (yes really), is now very nearly as accurate as the human brain. DeepFace can look at two photos, and irrespective of lighting or angle, can ...

A west London borough has approved plans to introduce facial recognition and AI-assisted cameras into its CCTV infrastructure ...