Biden deploys controversial facial-recognition app to track asylum seekers

Kamala Harris’s team is trying to distance the vice president from the border crisis after ‘panicking’ when she was given the assignment by President Biden, according to a new report. Harris is due to travel to Guatemala and Mexico next week as part of her role in leading diplomatic efforts to reduce immigration from Central … Read more

Facebook is considering adding facial-recognition to smart glasses but wants to solve privacy issues

Facebook is looking at adding facial recognition to its highly anticipated smart glasses that are planned to hit the market next year. At an all-staff meeting, Facebook Reality Labs director Andrew Bosworth said the company was examining the technology’s legal and privacy ramifications, BuzzFeed reports. He cautioned the benefits and risks were obvious, ‘and we … Read more

Creepy facial-recognition search engine tracks down a person’s photos online

A Polish website called PimEyes uses facial recognition to search the internet for pictures of a person based on a single image.  That photo can be taken from a news site, social media, or an uploaded selfie, and the computer algorithm then shows matches on the web.  The free part of service shows photos it … Read more