Biometrics

U.S. Army Figures Out How To Do Facial Recognition in the Dark

New method uses machine learning to extrapolate features from thermal images.

  • By Patrick Tucker, Defense One

The Homeland Security Department Just Hired a UK Firm of 20 People to Help With Border Security

iProov will roll out its biometric facial verification technology to help U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

  • By Lianna Brinded, Quartz

Report: Men Are More Comfortable Giving Up Biometric Data Than Women Are

Women are more than twice as likely as men to say they don’t want the government collecting any of their biometric information.

  • By Jack Corrigan

What Are You Looking At? Social Security Wants To Know

The agency is looking for eye-tracking technologies to improve the user experience on its websites.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Government Seeks Biometric Tech That Doesn’t Need People To Scan Fingerprints

New technology suggests automated machines might be the ones scanning your fingerprints from surfaces in the near future.

  • By Jack Corrigan

After Faces, China Is Moving Quickly to Identify People By Their Voices

China’s digitally-connected population has enabled the government to track people in many forms.

  • By Echo Huang, Quartz

Madison Square Garden Has Been Secretly Scanning Fans With Facial Recognition

The arena matches faces to a database to identify individuals and determine if they are “considered a problem.”

  • By Dave Gershgorn, Quartz
British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport. British Airways planes are parked at Heathrow Airport.

British Airways To Expand Boarding Gate Biometrics

Biometrics is becoming more common in U.S. airports.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

How to Turn Off Facebook's Facial Recognition

The social media site has been gaining detailed knowledge of your face.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Julio Corro, right, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo, Wednesday, July 12, 2017. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Julio Corro, right, helps a passenger navigate one of the new facial recognition kiosks at a United Airlines gate before boarding a flight to Tokyo, Wednesday, July 12, 2017.

U.S. Customs Wants to Use Your Face As a Boarding Pass

By 2022, the agency plans to use biometrics to identify 97 percent of travelers flying out of the country.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Nvidia Making Facial Recognition AI for Smart City Surveillance

Do you ever feel like somebody's watching you?

  • By Caitlin Fairchild
Passengers take moving staircases to waiting halls of a railway station in Zhengzhou, China. Passengers take moving staircases to waiting halls of a railway station in Zhengzhou, China.

Chinese Police Are Wearing Sunglasses That Can Recognize Faces

The devices have already helped nab seven fugitives.

  • By Zheping Huang, Quartz

Edward Snowden Is Campaigning Against the World’s Largest Biometric ID Program

Aadhaar, India’s 12-digit unique identification number program that has been under fire for its security and privacy systems.

  • By Sushma U N, Quartz

In 9 U.S. Cities, Airport Security Is Now Scanning Your Face

“DHS should not be scanning the faces of Americans as they depart on international flights—but DHS is doing it anyway,” warns a new report that finds facial recognition practices may be violating the law.

  • By Tanvi Misra, CityLab

Facebook Introduces a Facial Recognition Tool

It will let you know when other users upload your face.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Everything Apple Will Be Working on in 2018

Will there be any gadgets that inspire a technological revolution?

  • By Mike Murphy, Quartz

Under-the-Screen Fingerprint Readers Are Coming in 2018

Here's another option when it comes to smartphone biometrics.

  • By Caitlin Fairchild

Government Sued Over Tattoo Recognition Technology

The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that the program curtails First Amendment right to freedom of expression.

  • By Mohana Ravindranath

How One Law Enforcement Agency Is Using Facial Recognition to Identify Suspects

In Oregon, the Washington County Sheriff’s Department can review 300,000 mugshots in seconds and is helping other agencies to query their databases as well.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

What Do China’s Police Collect on Citizens in Order to Predict Crime? Everything

These databases can scoop up everything from addresses, to medical history, supermarket membership, and delivery records.

  • By Echo Huang, Quartz