The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office plans to sign a contract for facial recognition technology, surprising some county officials. Sheriff Denita Ball signed an intent to contract with Biometrica, a ...

Dave Lee is Bloomberg Opinion's US technology columnist. He was previously a correspondent for the Financial Times and BBC News. Meta Platforms Inc. thinks we’re too distracted for a proper debate on ...

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses as soon as this year, according to a new report from The New York Times. The feature, internally known as “Name Tag,” would allow smart ...

In an internal memo last year, Meta said the political tumult in the United States would distract critics from the feature’s release. By Kashmir Hill Kalley Huang and Mike Isaac Kashmir Hill reported ...

Oregon lawmakers heard testimony on a bill Wednesday that seeks to prohibit any law enforcement officer from wearing masks, the latest state salvo against federal immigration tactics. Masked federal ...

The company Ring ran a Super Bowl LX advertisement for its doorbell camera feature that can find missing dogs. Ring is a manufacturer of home security and smart home devices owned by Amazon. Other ...

Margarita Vladimirova used to work for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. A seemingly minor decision handed down last week by the Administrative Review Tribunal may open the door ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal immigration agents flooding U.S. streets are using a new surveillance tool kit whose increasing use on observers and bystanders is alarming civil liberties advocates, lawmakers ...

Civil liberty advocates and some lawmakers are sounding the alarm on the privacy risks of federal agents using surveillance toolkits during immigration enforcement operations. Using facial recognition ...

ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy ...

Federal immigration enforcement officials are using a growing arsenal of surveillance tools to track immigrants and protesters, including facial detection apps and databases, cellphone trackers and ...