It’s surprising how quickly public opinion can change. Winding the clocks back 12 months, many of us would have looked at a masked individual in public with suspicion. One consequence of this is that ...

The US Department of Homeland Security tested facial-recognition technology that it said can accurately identify masked airline passengers 96% of the time. Pre-pandemic facial-recognition algorithms ...

A VeriScan facial recognition tablet tells a passenger to proceed to the gate after taking a photo in the next phase of CBP's use of biometrics at Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia on ...

A recent development in the realm of facial recognition technology addresses the challenges posed by face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, promising to recognize the face despite the mask, as ...

It’s unclear if this mask was produced and sold commercially, or was simply a thought experiment. A photograph of a person wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt and a clear, seemingly pleated mask shared ...

Researchers at cyber-defense contractor PeopleTec have found that facial-recognition algorithms' focus on specific areas of the face opens the door to subtler surveillance avoidance strategies.… In a ...

Ever since companies started implementing contactless verification systems, facial recognition technology has held great potential. Now, with a global market share of over $4.9 billion, the technology ...

The World Economic Forum’s "Global Risks Report 2024" notes that foreign and domestic actors leveraging misinformation—often generated by AI—is among the most adverse threats the world will face in ...

Xiomara Quinonez ’24 graduated from Santa Clara University with a major in Computer Science and Engineering and a minor in Technical Innovation, Design, & Entrepreneurship. Quinonez was a 2023-24 ...

Employees at a neighbourhood committee in China have resorted to printing out images of their colleagues’ faces and using them as masks to circumvent facial recognition clocking-in systems, shocking ...