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Employees at a neighbourhood committee in China have resorted to printing out images of their colleagues’ faces and using them as masks to circumvent facial recognition clocking-in systems, shocking ...

Facial recognition technology could be used by all UK police forces in more situations under plan announced by the Home Office. It hopes a 10-week public consultation will also pave the way for the ...

So far facial recognition technology has been trialed in areas such as London and Leeds (Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire) Police could see a boost in powers under facial recognition technology plans ...

New facial-recognition tools being tested at Orlando International Airport could soon be keeping track of travelers at departure gates across the country. By Christine Chung Reporting from Orlando, ...

Ministers are seeking to ramp up police use of facial recognition to fight crime and are asking people how it should be used to form new laws. A 10-week consultation is being launched that will ask ...

A police force is to deploy facial recognition vans in the run-up to Christmas. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary is one of the latest forces to use live facial recognition (LFR) to detect ...