Engadget

Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app

Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify, ...
Metro

Sainsbury’s to start using facial recognition technology in stores

Sainsbury’s will soon introduce facial recognition across its supermarkets, in a move privacy campaigners told Metro is ‘chilling’. The divisive technology will be trialled for eight weeks at the ...
Forbes

ICE To Pay Up To $10 Million For Clearview Facial Recognition To Investigate Agent Assaults

As ICE ramps up its attempts to locate and deport undocumented immigrants, it’s faced a massive backlash in some parts of the U.S., including protests and, on occasion, attacks of ICE agents. Now, to ...
The Mirror

Sainsbury's using new 'Orwellian' face recognition that scans faces of shoppers

Sainsbury’s is to use controversial face recognition technology in its stores for the first time. However, the use of facial recognition has been heavily criticised by privacy groups. Campaign group ...
The Independent

Major supermarket becomes latest to use facial recognition technology inside stores

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
Afro

Woman wrongly accused of carjacking loses lawsuit against Detroit police who used facial tech

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman who was charged in a carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology. Sign ...
The Boston Globe

Senator Markey calls for ICE to halt use of facial recognition, other biometric technology

Senator Edward J. Markey teamed up with fellow US Senator Ron Wyden, of Oregon, to demand answers from immigration officials about their use of facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology ...
BBC

Knife attacker caught using facial recognition

A man who attacked a scooter rider with a knife, leaving him with wounds to his shoulder and stomach, was tracked down and arrested after detectives used facial recognition technology. Jalen Denny ...
Daily Mail

Sainsbury's will use facial recognition tech to fight Britain's shoplifting epidemic - but critics warn plan is 'chilling and disproportionate'

Sainsbury's has said it plans to introduce facial recognition across its UK shops as it launches the controversial technology in its first stores. The UK's second largest supermarket chain has ...
BBC

Knife attacker caught using facial recognition

Jalen Denny wounded the scooter rider and left him in need of emergency surgery A man who attacked a scooter rider with a knife, leaving him with wounds to his shoulder and stomach, was tracked down ...
Yahoo

Chicago man suing Home Depot for allegedly using facial recognition at self-checkout without consent — are you at risk?

A lawsuit in Illinois accuses Home Depot of collecting customer data without consent. The plaintiff, Benjamin Jankowski, filed the class action suit against Home Depot on August 1 in US District Court ...