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.

Wegmans is now using facial scanners to collect and store biometric data from grocery store shoppers, sparking privacy concerns among customers. The popular supermarket chain quietly rolled out the ...

Face morphing attacks have become a serious threat to biometric security systems, including those used at border crossings to match passports with faces.

Amid negotiations over funding for the Department of Homeland Security, a separate bill seeks to prohibit the agency from acquiring and using biometric identification systems on the general population ...

In three weeks time, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will have the right to your DNA. That’s not a hyperbole. A new initiative from DHS authorizes U.S. Customs and Border Patrol to extract ...

From unlocking phones with a glance to approving transactions with a fingerprint, biometric payments have moved firmly into ...

The smart home tool is drawing scrutiny from lawmakers and civil liberties groups who fear the technology will evolve into ...

ADHRB warns that Gulf states; data laws, framed as privacy reforms, are enabling widespread biometric surveillance through vague national security exemptions and weak enforcement that threaten ...