A controversial facial recognition tech company behind a vast face image search engine widely used by cops has been fined approximately $33 million in the Netherlands for serious data privacy ...

Australians logged into their search engine accounts on Google and Microsoft will have their age checked by the end of 2025 based on an online safety regulation, which the eSafety Commissioner ...

At a supermarket or a baseball game or most public places, you can generally expect to be anonymous. That could end if big tech companies release a tool that lets you search for a person by taking a ...

Concerns about children’s privacy have led PimEyes, the public face search engine, to ban searches of minors. PimEyes CEO Giorgi Gobronidze, who is based in Tbilisi, Georgia, said that technical ...

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A crop of startups are deploying tools that let you search for people based on their faces, worrying privacy advocates and elected officials that the end of publicly anonymity is around the corner. At ...