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.

Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest To End Privacy as We Know It, by Kashmir Hill, Random House, 352 pages, $28.99 "Do I want to live in a society ...

Generally, there are two types of facial-recognition software: one compares a photo of a person to those in a database of faces looking for a likely match (the kind of software police might use when ...

Many consumers interact with facial recognition technology each day when they unlock their iPhones. Before being added to smartphones, facial recognition technology—which uses biometric data to ...

Tina D’Agostin is CEO of Alcatraz AI, a leader in physical security technologies using facial authentication for autonomous access control. At Apple’s September 2017 Apple Event, the maker of the ...

Most discussions of facial recognition technology contemplate a world in which people walk the streets and drive the roads under the watchful eyes of government surveillance cameras. Those cameras ...