When John Howard began working for SAIC at the Maryland Test Facility, biometrics was an emerging technology supported by a nascent industry.

These technologies, both visible and invisible, are transforming the front lines of immigration enforcement and political protest across America today.

Federal troops are increasingly turning to high-tech tracking tools that push the boundaries of personal privacy ...

Federal immigration agents are using facial recognition technology that draws from US government biometric databases containing more than 1.2 billion face images, according to federal records reviewed ...

There are lots of examples of facial recognition’s role in helping police to locate wanted and vulnerable people. But as ...

Less than a year after Phoenix police touted an arrest in a cold case murder, prosecutors quietly dropped charges.

Immigration agents have used Mobile Fortify to scan the faces of countless people in the US—including many citizens.

Federal immigration agencies are using a vast surveillance network in Minnesota – from facial recognition technology to ‘stingrays’ that collect data by impersonating cell phone towers.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Walking into a Wegmans store, customers may be unaware that their faces could be scanned and entered into a security system, according to the Rochester-based supermarket chain.

A spokesperson for Wegmans defended the use of facial recognition at its Brooklyn and Manhattan locations, saying the popular supermarket chain only deploys the technology on a “case-by-case basis” at ...