People with stronger object recognition skills are better at spotting AI-generated faces, according to new research. Intelligence and AI familiarity did not predict performance.

The flood of computer-generated images across advertising and social media is, subconsciously, getting people used to seeing AI faces.

Yves Jeanrenaud is a scholar and amateur software developer behind Nearby Glasses, an open-source smart glasses detection app ...

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of UK police mass facial recognition searches against the passport and immigration databases. The Government has ...

The importance of face re-identification lies in its ability to provide a consistent and reliable means of identifying individuals. Unlike attributes such as clothing or gait, which can change ...

We encrypt face images to provide biometric and database security. Face recognition is central to many authentication, security, and personalized applications. Yet, it suffers from significant privacy ...

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 ...

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 ...

United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the ...

A years-long debate over the use of facial recognition software by the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) came to a head at a contentious Thursday meeting of the city’s Fire and Police Commission (FPC) ...

Editor’s note: The above video is from a related story that KXAN reported in April 2025. AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin Police Department has released its latest report of instances in which it used ...