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.

Dara Riordan is the President and COO of FaceFirst Inc., a global leader in facial recognition and AI-driven security software. Few technologies are as powerful—and often misunderstood—as facial ...

Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

Facial recognition technology is revolutionizing how consumers shop, travel and purchase. It is used to better secure airport, hospital, retail store and entertainment venue entry points. It is also ...

Law enforcement often balances public safety and individual privacy with technology. The increased use of technology, like facial recognition, puts police in the crosshairs of many. Facial recognition ...

Our biometric data is freely available to anybody with an AI model and a camera. Facial recognition software is such a pervasive technology that we submit our data whenever we go through airport ...

Thaddeus Johnson, a former police officer, is a senior fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice and teaches criminology at Georgia State University. Natasha Johnson is a faculty member at the Andrew ...