A controversial facial recognition tech company behind a vast face image search engine widely used by cops has been fined approximately $33 million in the Netherlands for serious data privacy ...

A crop of startups are deploying tools that let you search for people based on their faces, worrying privacy advocates and elected officials that the end of publicly anonymity is around the corner. At ...

Reverse facial recognition is a tool. Powerful, accessible, ambivalent. It fascinates with its promises—recovering an identity, checking an online presence, preventing a scam—but alarms with its risks ...

Experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead. By Kashmir Hill A man whom the police are ...

Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person. This isn't a hypothetical ...

even the toughest digital privacy law cannot compete with evasive facial recognition companies operating overseas. PimEyes is a popular "face search engine" that finds matches across the web based on ...

You post a photo online. Maybe it’s a headshot, a group pic, or a snapshot from vacation. A week later, your image pops up on a website you’ve never seen, attached to a name that isn’t yours. Welcome ...

A startup called PimEyes allows anyone to identify a stranger within seconds with just a photo of the person's face. The technology has alarmed... 'Too dangerous': Why even Google was afraid to ...

At a supermarket or a baseball game or most public places, you can generally expect to be anonymous. That could end if big tech companies release a tool that lets you search for a person by taking a ...

Imagine strolling down a busy city street and snapping a photo of a stranger then uploading it into a search engine that almost instantaneously helps you identify the person. This isn't a hypothetical ...