A Leak of Biometric Police Data Is a Sign of Things to Come

Thousands of fingerprints and facial images linked to police in India have been exposed online. Researchers say it’s a warning of what will happen as the collection of biometric data increases...

Amazon Comes Under Fire for Facial Recognition Platform

Facial-recognition technology has long been touted as a useful tool for law enforcement, but the ability of systems like Amazon’s Rekognition platform to identify large numbers of people at once in a single video or still frame has raised the hackles of privacy advocates. The American Civil...