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 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 ...

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 ...

Nearly two dozen states have passed laws regulating how tech companies collect data from our faces, eyes and voices. It comes ...

The technology Google dared not to release Journalist Hill with the Times said super-powerful face search engines have already been developed at Big Tech companies like Meta and Google.

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.

Experts disagreed on whether running surveillance camera images released by the police through a facial recognition system would produce a reliable lead.

Eventually, tech analysts say, Big Tech companies will likely have no choice but to make advanced face search engines publicly available in order to stay competitive.

ALLYN: Hill is a New York Times reporter who recently published a book about facial recognition technology called "Your Face Belongs To Us." She says super-powerful face search engines have been ...

Like Apple Face ID, except on steroids Of course, some version of facial recognition tools are already out in the world. Unlocking iPhones with Apple's Face ID. And at airports, the Transportation ...