The Rhode Island Judiciary has implemented facial recognition technology in its buildings to enhance security. The system uses FaceMe software to identify and track "monitored" individuals who have ...

A Tennessee grandmother blames AI facial recognition software for wrongfully putting her in jail for nearly half a year. It's been eight months since her arrest, and the police are only now admitting ...

Police imprisoned an innocent woman for more than 5 months after Clearview AI wrongly flagged her a match to a bank fraud suspect. Credit: Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images Angela Lipps, a ...

A Tennessee grandmother spent more than five months in jail after police used an AI facial recognition tool to link her to crimes committed in North Dakota – a state she says she’d never been to ...

At RSAC 2026, a live demo showed how easily AI tools can bypass facial recognition systems once considered secure. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, focusing on privacy. With companies ...

US lawmakers have written to the social media company Meta demanding answers over proposals to introduce facial recognition technology to its smart glasses, which the lawmakers say puts the privacy ...

Angela Lipps, seen here in a photo from her GoFundMe page, spent more than five months in jail for a crime she maintains she didn't commit after AI software linked her to a series of bank fraud ...

In a quiet suburb of Tennessee, the AI and physical world collided with devastating consequences for a grandmother whose only crime was existing in a database. Law enforcement’s increasing reliance on ...

WTF?! Facial recognition systems aren't always accurate, and the consequences of these mistakes can be severe. One of the worst instances of AI getting things wrong is the case of Angela Lipps, a ...

The Metropolitan Police are set to trial handheld facial recognition technology that will allow officers to conduct biometric checks on the spot, the Mayor of London has confirmed. Known as ...

Biometric authentication—the ability to unlock your devices by using just your face or fingerprint—is one of the few smartphone features that, even today, leave me feeling like we’re living in the ...