At the end of 2024, fifteen US states had laws banning some version of facial recognition. Usually, these laws were written on the basis that the technology is a nightmare-level privacy invasion ...

Adoption of the tech has civil liberties advocates alarmed, especially as the government vows to expand surveillance of protesters and students. Police and federal agencies have found a controversial ...

New Orleans, home of Bourbon Street revelry, has become the first American city known to have a live facial recognition network. How that came to be is a story of private initiative and political ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring powerful new surveillance tools to identify and monitor people. The Trump administration is seeking to employ new technology as it tries to boost ...