Amid the recent, dizzying advances in generative AI, it’s been easy to miss the slow but steady progress in facial recognition over the last decade. In the past few months, it has broken containment.

Our biometric data is freely available to anybody with an AI model and a camera. Facial recognition software is such a pervasive technology that we submit our data whenever we go through airport ...

The author is employed by Optic Security Group. Facial recognition technology is becoming more widely used, but this has not been matched by wider acceptance from the public. Controversies continue to ...