Metropolitan Police officers set up the camera on a van in Romford, East London, which then cross-checked photos of faces of passers-by against a database of wanted criminals.

Three former Chilean nuns who claim to have been sexually abused over two decades ago by priests in their religious order have hailed comments by Pope Francis earlier this month in which he recognized the abuse of nuns in the Catholic Church. Havovi Cooper reports

Pedestrians in Leicester Square are being filmed by cameras, which then cross-check a photo of their face against a database of wanted criminals.

The social media giant announced on Thursday it has removed 66 accounts associated with Moscow-based company SocialDataHub and its sister firm Fubutech.

Facial recognition technology was credited with the arrest this week of a man attempting to use a fake passport to enter the United States at Washington’s Dulles airport, officials said. Officials said that on the third day of deployment of the new technology, border agents were able to determine that the man was using a […]

Amazon's facial recognition tool incorrectly matched the faces of 28 lawmakers

Specialists from Microsoft’s New York research lab has revised datasets used to train the system, as well as gathered new data that focused specifically on skin tone, gender and age.

A controversial facial recognition system is being questioned by the the independent Information Commissioner over claims innocent people’s images are held on police files.

Facebook faces a class-action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology to tag people in photos. According to the judge’s order, damages could rack up to billions of dollars if Facebook loses. Facebook said the case has no merit.

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