From 2008 to 2010, as Edward Snowden has revealed, the National Security Agency (NSA) collaborated with the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) to intercept the webcam footage of 1.8 ...

Consider the scenario: you are walking down a street and everyone knows who you are. This is not the cosy familiarity of a small town or village but a chilling situation where complete strangers are ...

Police are being encouraged to double their use of retrospective facial recognition (RFR) software to track down offenders over the next six months. Policing minister Chris Philp has written to force ...

As tech firms scramble to keep up with reality of coronavirus, some experts say users must change It is an increasingly common modern annoyance: arriving at the front of the queue to pay in a shop, ...

Users upload a photo and will be given matches from public websites A free facial recognition tool that allows people to find pictures of themselves or others from around the internet has drawn ...

Florida has stopped testing Amazon's facial recognition program after rights groups raised concerns that the service could be used in ways that could violate civil liberties. Orlando ended a pilot ...

Facebook said Tuesday it plans to stop using facial-recognition software that could automatically recognize people in photos and videos posted on the social network, marking a massive shift both for ...

Uber has been accused of discrimination by a black driver who said he was barred from the app because the facial recognition software did not recognise him. In a case filed under civil rights law, ...

The world's biggest pest-control group is planning to eliminate rats through the use of facial recognition, with trials now taking place in people's homes. The software - which Rentokil began ...

A free facial recognition tool that allows people to find pictures of themselves or others from around the internet has drawn criticism from privacy campaigners. PimEyes describes itself as a privacy ...