Tag: FaceRecognition

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Wrongful Arrest Exposes Failures in One of the Oldest Police Face-Recognition Tools in the US

June 10, 2026
Dell Cameron
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A Florida man was wrongfully arrested for attempting to illegally lure a child after police relied on a face-recognition match that was inaccurate, according to…

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Meta Deletes Face-Recognition System From Its Smart Glasses App After WIRED Report

June 8, 2026
Dhruv Mehrotra
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One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the…

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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

February 6, 2026
Dell Cameron
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The face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify…