Biometric authentication—the ability to unlock your devices by using just your face or fingerprint—is one of the few smartphone features that, even today, leave me feeling like we’re living in the ...

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Using two biometric signals increases spoofing resistance. Facial authentication and iris recognition combined drops the false‑match rate to one in one billion.

Emilio De Torre compared it to buying a lottery ticket. The executive director of the Milwaukee Turners met in September with Police Chief Jeffrey Norman and Heather Hough, the department’s chief of ...

Homeland Security aims to combine its face and fingerprint systems into one big biometric platform—after dismantling centralized privacy reviews and key limits on face recognition. The agency is ...

The BBC’s conspiracy thriller drama The Capture is back for a third season. The first two series had viewers hooked with a story that intertwined police investigations, facial recognition and deepfake ...

When companies and governments expand data collection in the name of security, sometimes the only way you can object is to opt out. And with facial recognition, the time to object is now. I'm an ...