Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s ...

A city’s push for facial recognition on public buses ignites debate over security and privacy

Kansas City, Missouri, plans to boost security by installing facial recognition cameras on buses. However, the rollout has ...

Meta is testing smart glass facial recognition tech that’s also used by police and military: Report

An investigative report reveals that Meta licensed face recognition from Rank One, a Pentagon contractor, and built a system ...

Police facial recognition tech led to wrongful arrest, lawsuit states

The lawsuit names Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, whose office manages the software. A man accused of luring a child ...

ACLU Sues After Facial Recognition Falsely Identifies Florida Man as a Child Abductor

Police arrested and charged Robert Dillon with a heinous crime based on nothing more than a faulty image search.

Florida man blames wrongful arrest on "error-prone" AI facial recognition

The wrongful arrest is just one of over a dozen in recent years linked to facial recognition technology.
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Face Search Engines: What They Do and How to Choose One

A face search engine does something a normal search box cannot: it lets you start with a photograph of a face and find where that face appears across the ...