Facial Recognition
Massachusetts House Passes Social Media Age Verification Digital ID Bill
Every adult in Massachusetts would have to hand their ID to a tech company just to keep scrolling.
Reno Police Sued After Wrongful Arrest Based on Facial Recognition Errors
The officer who arrested him later admitted under oath it never should have happened, and that doing it this way was department policy.
OkCupid Gave 3M Users’ Photos to AI Firm, FTC Says
The regulatory price for handing three million people’s dating photos to a facial recognition startup turned out to be a promise to behave.
US & EU Negotiate Biometric Data-Sharing Deal
A European whose fingerprints end up in a US enforcement database by mistake would have to fix it through American courts.
Illinois Police Fight Bill to Ban Facial Recognition Use
One state legislator wants to shut down Illinois’s largest facial recognition database, and 227 police organizations showed up to say no.
Apple Forces UK iPhone Age Checks in iOS 26.4
Every iPhone in Britain is now a checkpoint, and the price of entry for many is their ID or credit card.
FC Barcelona Fined for Privacy Violations Over Biometric Data Collection
The Barcelona fine is a speed bump on a highway where banks, stadiums, and retailers are all quietly building permanent records of your face.
Angela Lipps Spent 108 Days in Jail Because a Facial Recognition Algorithm Was Wrong
The software was wrong, but Angela Lipps still had to spend 108 days in a Tennessee jail proving it.
Britain’s Business Registry Left Director Data Wide Open — Yet the Government Is Still Building a National Digital ID
The system that just leaked directors’ home addresses through a back button is also the one the UK government plans to store biometric data in.
UK Government’s Digital ID System Could Grant Police Access to Facial Recognition Database
A system the government is describing as a digital convenience tool could, under legislation its own consultation proposed, become searchable by police without people’s knowledge or consent.
UK Lords Back Facial Recognition Overreach, Protest Crackdown Powers
The DVLA was built to check whether people can drive, and the Lords just voted to turn it into the largest real-name face recognition database the police have ever had access to.
MembersThe Government Wants to Scan Your Face. It’s Not Waiting for Permission.
The US DHS is building a surveillance system vast enough to identify anyone on any street and is doing so without a legal framework to govern when, why, or whether it should.