In the fight for more privacy online, University of Toronto researchers have devised an algorithm to sabotage facial recognition technology. Called an “adversarial attack,” the algorithm ...

Their algorithm makes tiny changes to images, which are barely visible to humans, but which make the faces in the images unrecognizable to current face recognition algorithms. The image on the ...

"When you publicly make available photos of your face, you want the power to control who can actually use that," said Joey Bose, the masters student who developed the algorithm.

Despite massive improvements in deep-learning techniques, federal testing shows that most facial recognition algorithms perform poorly at identifying people besides white men.

The facial recognition algorithm produced several matches, and the analyst chose the first one: a mug shot of a man named Willie Allen Lynch.

A U.S. government study has revealed that many facial recognition systems misidentify people of colour more often than Caucasian people.. The study was conducted by the National Institute of Standards ...

When we look at the world, we don't always see clearly. We can be tripped up by our own personal biases, or a lack of information. Facial recognition algorithms may help us change that. Facial ...