A new method for attacking biometric templates can reconstruct facial images with reasonable accuracy faster than previously ...

Editor’s Note: After this post was published, Facebook provided more specific details about how their face recognition system works. The following post has been updated to include the additional ...

Facebook said Tuesday it would drastically scale back its facial recognition system and delete more than 1 billion users' facial templates after years of mounting criticism over the company's ...

deleting the facial recognition templates of more than one billion people. Jerome Pesenti, the company's vice president of artificial intelligence, wrote in a blog post that the decision comes as ...

Facial recognition is becoming more accurate, but some systems exhibit racial bias and some uses of the technology are controversial Can Big Brother identify your face from street-level CCTV ...

and it will delete the facial recognition templates that it uses for identification. “Looking ahead, we still see facial recognition technology as a powerful tool,” writes Pesenti in a blog ...

The company in the coming weeks will delete “more than a billion people’s individual facial recognition templates,” he said. Facebook’s about-face follows a busy few weeks. On Thursday it ...