Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he was a US citizen. Only after they scanned his face, did the agents let him go.

Mobile Fortify is a smartphone application that was developed by CBP but has been made available to ICE agents operating in ...

Last week, in a humanities class at a highly selective university in the Northeast, a student played The New York Times’ Spelling Bee game on a phone, according to another student who sat within view.

Mobile Identify, an app that allowed police to use facial recognition technology to identify illegal immigrants, has been ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Facebook says it’s shutting down its facial recognition software feature. The social media giant plans to delete data from more than a billion users, citing potential risks when ...

Axon's police bodycams are used across the world and may soon come with facial recognition after a trial in Edmonton, Canada.

Like the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD), the sheriff's office is considering acquiring facial recognition applications from the company Biometrica, but civil liberties advocates are raising ...

Facial recognition on personal use devices like smartphones and laptops has become increasingly common. The concept seems downright futuristic on the surface — most of us used a PIN, password, or ...

AMES, Iowa – Brian Mennecke is not surprised to see developers using facial recognition technology to create new apps for smart phones and tablets. In fact, Mennecke and his colleagues at Iowa State ...

CBP uses a range of apps as part of its border security efforts, including the Global Entry and CBP Link apps for entry into and out of the U.S., as well as the CBP Home app, which allows those ...

Long the domain of sci-fi and James Bond movies, facial recognition is finally entering the mainstream. Tools like Apple’s FaceID and Microsoft’s Windows Hello have brought facial recognition to ...