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 ...

Sports stadiums around the country have begun using face recognition to identify ticket holders, threatening to normalize a uniquely powerful surveillance technology that has already been used for ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Members of Fight for the Future and the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project protest facial recognition scanning software ...

(TNS) — When Micah Kordsmeier of Durham arrived at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection booth at Raleigh-Durham International Airport after a trip to Mexico, the officer didn’t ask for his passport.

Biometric technology is expanding at airports across the United States — and the world — and transforming the way we move through them, from checking a bag to boarding the plane. By Christine Chung ...

Tesco, one of the UK’s largest employers, is testing software by Auror, a New Zealand company that offers retrospective facial recognition to analyse incidents after they have occurred. Auror, backed ...