Android Authority leak says Google is testing Project Toscana, an advanced face unlock for Pixel and Chromebooks that works ...

The United Kingdom’s controversial rollout of facial recognition technology will rely on software that appears to have already been deployed in Gaza, where it is used by the Israeli army to track, ...

More details emerge on the upgraded sensor ...

Mobile Fortify app being used to scan faces of citizens and immigrants – but its use has prompted a severe backlash Immigration enforcement agents across the US are increasingly relying on a new ...

Face unlock on modern Pixel phones is good, but it's not perfect. Google's secret "Project Toscana" will change that.

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 ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

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 ...

Minnesota resident Nicole Cleland had her Global Entry and TSA PreCheck privileges revoked three days after an incident in which she observed activity by immigration agents, the woman said in a court ...

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