New York web developer says your right to privacy is at stake. Jan. 10, 2012 — -- Big Brother is watching you, though probably not in the ways most of us would imagine. Sure, the cameras at banks ...

Modern Windows PCs often include some kind of biometric hardware, mainly in the form of facial recognition (using infrared cameras) or fingerprint scanning. Both of these features let you use Windows ...

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Facial recognition was a late-blooming technology: It went through 40 years of floundering before it finally matured. At the 1970 Japan World Exposition, a primitive computer tried—mostly in vain—to ...

Never mind that recent project by two Harvard students showing how face-recognition glasses are a huge invasion of privacy. The glasses aren’t where danger lies! You start a conversation with someone, ...