US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the ...

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s ...

Immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit that's alarming civil liberties advocates, ...

A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from using facial ...

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

Agents use facial recognition, social media monitoring and other tech tools not only to identify undocumented immigrants but also to track protesters, current and former officials said. By Sheera ...

In a move that could redefine how people pay for everyday transactions, the UAE has begun piloting the Middle East’s first biometric payment system, allowing users to make payments using facial ...

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