Law enforcement often balances public safety and individual privacy with technology. The increased use of technology, like facial recognition, puts police in the crosshairs of many. Facial recognition ...

In 2017, detectives working a cold case at the East Bay Regional Park District Police Department got an idea, one that might help them finally get a lead on the murder of Maria Jane Weidhofer.

Hundreds of Americans have been arrested after being connected to a crime by facial recognition software, a Washington Post investigation has found, but many never know it because police seldom ...

Records show Dallas police are using a powerful facial recognition tool in serious felony cases. Now they're considering it for lower-level crimes — a ...

An artificial intelligence tool used to identify people in law enforcement investigations, airport security and public housing surveillance disproportionately harms people of color and women, ...

Five of the 10 inmates who escaped have been recaptured. During the ongoing massive manhunt for 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail last week, authorities say the use of facial recognition ...

Xiomara Quinonez ’24 graduated from Santa Clara University with a major in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor in Technical Innovation, Design, & Entrepreneurship. Quinonez was a 2023-24 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lars Daniel covers digital evidence and forensics in life and law. In a recent ruling that underscores the growing debate over ...

We often hear about government misuse of face recognition technology (FRT) and how it can derail a person’s life through wrongful arrests and other harms. Despite mounting evidence, government ...

Retailers have told the House of Lords that live facial recognition (LFR) would be of limited use in tackling shoplifting due to the associated safety and ethical concerns, but that working with ...

Sports stadiums around the country have begun using face recognition to identify ticket holders, threatening to normalize a uniquely powerful surveillance technology that has already been used for ...