Senators Edward J. Markey, Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley sent a letter Thursday to Acting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Todd Lyons urging the agency to stop using “Mobile Fortify, ...

Senator Edward J. Markey teamed up with fellow US Senator Ron Wyden, of Oregon, to demand answers from immigration officials about their use of facial recognition and fingerprint scanning technology ...

A lawsuit in Illinois accuses Home Depot of collecting customer data without consent. The plaintiff, Benjamin Jankowski, filed the class action suit against Home Depot on August 1 in US District Court ...

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 ...

DETROIT (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Detroit police in the wrongful arrest of a pregnant woman who was charged in a carjacking partly because of facial recognition technology. Sign ...

A hot potato: US states are imposing stricter rules on how tech companies collect, analyze, and monetize biometric data, including facial features, iris patterns, and other unique identifiers. While ...

New York City’s largest group of public defenders is calling on the city to investigate the NYPD’s use of facial recognition technology, which it says has led to several false arrests. In a letter ...

The Milwaukee Police Department has not relied on evidence-based research in their decision to use facial recognition technology. Instead, they are disregarding research that unequivocally shows that ...

Trevis Williams is eight inches taller than a man accused of flashing a woman in Union Square in February. The police arrested him anyway. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New York Times Supported by ...

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If you're shopping at Home Depot, you might want to watch out for facial recognition at the check-out counter. Benjamin Jankowski, a resident of Chicago, Illinois, is taking Home Depot to court after ...