ORLEANS POLICE CATCH FUGITIVES, STOP CRIME TRACK AND TERROR SUSPECTS IN REAL TIME. BUT TODAY, THAT ALERT SYSTEM IS SILENT TO NOPD. CASSIE SCHERM INVESTIGATES WHY IT WAS PAUSED AND WHAT THE CITY MAY BE ...

MUCH FOR THAT. AND AGAIN, EARLIER WHEN I WENT OUT TO THE FRENCH QUARTER TO TALK TO SOME WITNESSES, GINA, TALKING ABOUT THIS FACIAL RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY FROM PROJECT NOLA THAT WAS ABLE TO RECOGNIZE ...

A private non-profit operates over 200 cameras with live facial recognition in New Orleans. The system raises questions about ...

Five of the 10 inmates who escaped have been recaptured. During the ongoing massive manhunt for 10 inmates who escaped from a New Orleans jail last week, authorities say the use of facial recognition ...

As ICE ramps up its attempts to locate and deport undocumented immigrants, it’s faced a massive backlash in some parts of the U.S., including protests and, on occasion, attacks of ICE agents. Now, to ...

Face recognition is a dragnet surveillance technology and its expansion within law enforcement over the last 20 years has been marred by systematic invasions of privacy, inaccuracies, unreliable ...

An NPR report examines how live facial recognition is being used in New Orleans and who ultimately controls the technology.

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 ...

The tool allows anyone wearing smart glasses to instantly get info on strangers, including their home address and phone number. Reading time 4 minutes Two college students have used Meta’s smart ...

It’s unclear if this mask was produced and sold commercially, or was simply a thought experiment. A photograph of a person wearing a black, hooded sweatshirt and a clear, seemingly pleated mask shared ...

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.

Jay primarily writes news and deals posts for Android Police. Before joining AP, he spent the past several years yammering on about the crazy world of Android for various tech outlets. Besides ...