The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has done tens of thousands of face recognition searches using software from outside providers in recent years. Yet only 5 percent of the 200 agents with ...

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.

The Hartford City Council is considering a measure to protect city residents from the use of facial recognition technology by police to establish probable cause for a criminal charge. City councilman ...

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 ...

TOKYO, Feb 8, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced that its face recognition technology has been ranked the world's most accurate in a benchmark test(1) conducted by ...

In 2018, a man was arrested for stealing a pair of socks from a T.J. Maxx store in New York City, even though he was signed in at a hospital for the birth of his child when the crime was committed.

A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America. If it fails, it'll be a blow to a once-promising movement. Just four years ago, the ...

Facial recognition technology has entered the mass market, with our faces now able to unlock our phones and computers. While the ability to empower machines with the very human ability to identify a ...

Essex Police has paused its use of live facial recognition (LFR) technology after identifying potential accuracy and bias risks. The force’s suspension of its LFR system – provided by Israeli ...

TOKYO, Apr 9, 2025 - (JCN Newswire) - - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that its face recognition technology was ranked the world's most accurate in the most recent benchmark test (1) ...